Transcribe! for Mac
Transcribe recorded music.
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Transcribe! overview
Transcribe! is an assistant for working out a piece of music from a recording. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down the music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.
Features:
- Transcribe! reads audio from many different types of audio file and audio CD. It displays the audio waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and easily play or loop from any point
- It can also display video files synchronised with the slowed down music
- You can add textual annotations
- Loops and positions can be stored and recalled.
- There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can configure these as you like.
- Transcribe! can respond to various pedals so as to keep your hands free : start and stop playback with your feet!
- There is extensive and readable help accessible from within the program.
- The "spectrum" feature displays the strength of the various pitches in any chord or note you select, in the form of a graph - a wavy line over a piano keyboard graphic. The height of the various peaks in the graph indicate the strength of the note above which the peak appears
- Transcribe! offers various audio processing effects (Slowdown, Pitch Change, EQ filtering etc) intended to help with transcribing. These effects all run in "real time" unless your machine is old and slow. This means there is no pre-processing or other waiting, the processing is performed on-the-fly while playing and you can instantly hear the effect of changes to EQ etc. For instance if you press the half-speed button while playing then playback simply continues, at half speed
What’s new in version 9.10.0
Version 9.10.0:
- Various improvements including the first native build for Apple Silicon M1 Macs.
- Mac: we now have a native build for Apple Silicon (M1 processor) machines, which means you have to choose the right version. In fact the Intel version will also run on Apple Silicon machines but obviously you get better performance with the Apple Silicon version. ALSO we now include GStreamer as part of the Transcribe! Mac download. This has the advantage of convenience and of avoiding confusion about which GStreamer version to use with which Transcribe! version. The only drawback is that the download is bigger: 50 MB (Intel) or 43 MB (Apple Silicon).
- By popular request, you can now have whatever speed buttons you want (in the range from 5% to 200%), in the upper toolbar. See Preferences - Toolbar for how.
- CPU usage while playing is now somewhat less, but you can make it lower still by selecting "Reduced CPU" in Preferences - General. This doesn't affect the audio or video, it merely reduces the frame rate of screen redrawing, meaning that scrolling of the waveform or movement of the play position indicator will be less smooth. This is helpful if you are using your laptop on battery power, or want to stop the fan running.
- We introduced a change in 9.00 which was that maximized transcription windows (e.g. double-click the title bar) would be restored to normal (non maximized) size when you switch transcriptions. This proved to be unpopular so we have now returned to the old way which is that they stay maximized.
- Metronome clicks: fixed a bug which was, in the last version clicks only worked properly when play speed was 100% !
- We can now read "mogg" Ogg Vorbis files (multi track Ogg Vorbis audio).
- New command on the View menu to "Show All Sound Tracks" (for media files with multiple sound tracks).
- Changing the soundtrack in the Sound File Info window now changes the actual soundtrack in the View.
- Two-finger pinch & zoom on trackpads, for zooming the waveform, previously worked on some combinations of OS and trackpad but not all. It now works on rather more devices, let me know if it doesn't work on yours (if your trackpad does work for pinch & zoom in other applications).
- New commands MarkerNewSectionCurrent, MarkerNewMeasureCurrent, MarkerNewBeatCurrent which place the new marker at the current point (red triangle) always.
- New commands for 10-second selection adjustments (previously 5 was the biggest).
- You will need to program keyboard shortcuts to use these.
- The "Export Text Blocks" command has been renamed as "Export Markers and Text Blocks" and moved from the Text menu to the File menu.
- Various other minor changes.
Transcribe! for Mac
$39.00
In English
Version 9.10.0
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Nov 10 2017
Version: 8.50
Current version is 8.70 and runs from Mac OS 10.10 to 10.13.
Nov 14 2012
Version: 8.31
I'm surprised none of those slowdowners out there deals with tempo instead of % of speed — we musicians use tempo, in case you don't know... ;-)
It would be nice to set the original tempo of the song (when I know it) and say play it at 113 instead of 97, not having to do the calculation 113/97=1,164948454 and then entering 116.494%... (which I could't even enter manually in the PPC version, when I've tried it)
And what if I don't know the original tempo? Well, a nice tempo detector would be an awesome feature! :-D
Aug 26 2011
Version: 8.20
I have been using transcribe for a few years and I love it. Great tool!
The new piano roll is awesome but I think that lacks a feature to do vertical zoom and/or detach the piano roll window.
Aug 23 2011
Version: 8.20
I teach mandolin and guitar and perform in a humble weekend band. It's a big hit with students for transcribing music; its combination of waveform, looping, tempo slowdown, and movie display are the best that I've found. Price is right, too.