Tabs?

mr dave · 02-10-2010, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by ElephantSack

What I've always been interested in is having a program that you could hook your guitar or bass up to your computer, play your song, and have the tabs automatically transcribed for you. I can write tabs, but a lot of the songs I write can get to be really complicated to try and write it down. Does anyone know of a program that sounds like that?

the musician in me says that would be effing wicked cool, the student who studied computer programming in me is in tears. it would be a super hard thing to code and have worthwhile results at an affordable price.

i seem to remember hearing about production suites that had some sort of functionality like that, maybe the last version of Cakewalk or something along those lines. either way, you'd have to be really tight and chords would be a mess for the system to read and transcribe accurately to what you're playing. it might know you played a D chord but to recognize which voicing it's coming from would be a real challenge for the developers.

can any of the studio pros here shed a little light?