Any know of any equipment where you can sing a song and then have the notes written

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I am a Lyricist and would like to know if anyone knows of any equipment, technology
where I can sing a song and then equipment or technology lets me know what notes I have sung and have them written out for me as I cannot read or write music.
 
It would work much better if you could play it on a keyboard, and I think that unless you know enough about written music to set time and key signatures, you'll struggle with it a bit. You would need a computer with a mic, a USB mic such as a B.L.U.E. Yeti, or any mic and a recording interface. The software is called music notation software. Do a search on Noteworthy and Coda Finale. You'll find the software is out there, but it has limitations. Hope that helps.-Richie
 
I suggest that you'll at least need to get across the basics of music or the outputs of any software may not be usable for anyone else... bars, time signatures, keys etc all need to be covered for your score to be of value to others. There's more to it than just noting the pitches and durations of the notes you sing..

It's not particularly difficult theory to get a working understanding of, either.
 
Doesn't melodyne (or however you spell it) do something like this as well?
 
It's basically WAV to MID software. For voice, you might have to autotune first. And be prepared to fix/adjust the results. A good recording chain helps too as it doesn't have to try to find out what is content and what is noise floor. And you might want to avoid singing words and just sound the tones. But it's the new automated transcription method. Versus the old days where you had to figure it out manually. Starting pitch, key, intervals, known melody, whatever tools were at hand. All by ear and familiarity. There's computers that do that now.
 
Pretty sure Cubase 5 will. VariAudio will do near what Melodyne does and Cubase also does notation. Not sure how the whole notation thing works though.

Just throwing that out for a possibility. :)
 
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