Tab Software

[BurnBarfield]

Hello, I am looking for software that when I put a c.d. in, it can tab the guitar out for me. Mars Music, when they were in business, had something that did this on their website, Please help
-Aaron

 

[tom18222]

technologically impossible. unless it it reads the disc and gets the tab from an online database. its not possible to just be able detect the tabs.

 

[Chrisjob]

Mars Music, when they were in business, had something that did this on their website.
-Aaron

They most certainly did not. This is, as Tom said, technologically impossible. Computer software isn't as nearly as discerning as your ears, and cannot pick out a guitar part from a piccolo line- it can only "read" the frequency content of the entire mix. Second, even if you inserted only the guitar part, for the same reason, a computer cannot pick out individual notes, only the harmonic content of the part. I imagine if you could find a digital guitar, or an analog one that only produced sine waves (which is called a synthesizer) then such software might work.

Otherwise, use the best tool you've got- your ears.

There's a whole mess of tab sites online- unless your tune is moderately obscure (which most of the records I listen to are) you can probably find someone else who's tabbed it.


-Chris

 

[saxplaya]

there, my friends u are wrong

It is impossible, as u say for a computer to pick out a guitar part with chords in the background, other melodies, harmonies going on simultaneously. MARS did carry Finale by Coda. And, my friend who posted previously is right. It does, very well by the way, have that ability. Only on one melody at a time right now tho. using cool edit tho, u can use a notch filter to isolate the range of the melody, and a high/low pass filter. So conceivably (sp?), u might be able to. Finale also makes software called Finale Guitar. It takes incoming sound, converts it to either tab, sheet music, or just midi. Sorry don't want to start an argument, I just thought everyone knew about this software. Finale rocks, I've been using it for years.

 

[Aaron Cheney]

You can get pitch recognition functionality in just about any mid-priced DAW package now...SONAR has it for example. You play a single melody line and it can recognize the pitches, translate them to MIDI values, and subsequently score them as sheet music or tab.
THank goodness every artist I like has arranged every song on all their CD's to feature a single, unnacompanied guitar that plays only single note lines. Makes tabbing out their songs a breeze....

A
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