Using Audacity's spectrogram to transcribe music

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I use Audacity's spectrogram to transcribe music when something is hard to hear. Not sure how to view a spectrogram? Start here: • Exploring Audacity's S...

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  • @Arlojmikk
    @Arlojmikk4 ай бұрын

    audacitys spectrogram is nice but i ended up using the program sonic visualizer instead because its a little more easy to see when im trying to transcribe something that isnt clear cut and since the spectrogram view on that program also shows what the key is when you hover over a section which is very very useful for me. the song im trying to transcribe is luminescence and a bud by tengu no mai, which is one of my favorite songs

  • @Arlojmikk

    @Arlojmikk

    4 ай бұрын

    (also i'm transcribing it into a midi file because i need it in that format for the purpose im making it)

  • @robinHobin

    @robinHobin

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the recommendation!

  • @Maurice75
    @Maurice75 Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely awesome video. Simple, fast and concise. Didactic.

  • @matildaessig6147
    @matildaessig61473 жыл бұрын

    wow - thank you for sharing. This has opened up a whole new universe of perceptual possibility for me.

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's nice to hear! I just wanted to share a bit, and I'm glad it helped!

  • @EsQuizzyMusic
    @EsQuizzyMusic6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much, and I enjoyed the excursion to the performance clip! =)

  • @GuitarUniverse2013
    @GuitarUniverse20133 жыл бұрын

    You can also slow the playback down for more complicated pieces. Really cool idea!

  • @tarquinnff3
    @tarquinnff37 жыл бұрын

    Very informative. Thanks for sharing.

  • @functionform
    @functionform7 жыл бұрын

    Are you the nicest person of all time? Super sweet story and the vid was a bonus.

  • @fermatreturns1008
    @fermatreturns1008 Жыл бұрын

    very helpful, thanks for posting :)

  • @emanuel_soundtrack
    @emanuel_soundtrack4 жыл бұрын

    i think for one part pieces logic pro is already good with the midi conversation. Btw. its espected that violin players have ear above average

  • @gillopez8660
    @gillopez86607 жыл бұрын

    Great video!

  • @antoniomattana6706
    @antoniomattana67064 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @ruthsmith7053
    @ruthsmith70532 жыл бұрын

    I know this song, its an Irish folk song, I played this a billionth time with my band

  • @subhamchoudhury3681
    @subhamchoudhury36816 жыл бұрын

    Hey pretty interesting. Is there any feature available in audacity to get the frequencies being played at each time interval in a tabular format??

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sorry, I don't know. Maybe?

  • @benzion786
    @benzion7864 жыл бұрын

    great i just need about eight years of music clases to learn to recognize the notes by ear and then get a crappy program to transcribe the music myself because the program just gives me dots and lines.... so freaking dumb

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    4 жыл бұрын

    I hear you-someone in your position will maybe learn more by just going totally into playing by ear. In the end it's what you hear that counts! Many of the GREAT greats didn't bother reading music.

  • @acorderog
    @acorderog7 жыл бұрын

    This is simply amazing Esto es simplemente increible Isto é simplesmente incrível

  • @Mariemichee
    @Mariemichee2 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU!

  • @kachilda
    @kachilda3 жыл бұрын

    D is baritone E is tenor that's how you can tell.

  • @CamerieriZeppoleMix
    @CamerieriZeppoleMix3 жыл бұрын

    WHERE IS THE TRANSCRIBING USING AUDACITY??? I DIDN'T SEE THE SHEET MUSIC?

  • @1827641
    @18276413 жыл бұрын

    6:37 "Even one could do that", how could it be done? I would find it very useful to superimpose a piano keyboard

  • @ftwgunnerpwns

    @ftwgunnerpwns

    2 ай бұрын

    hi! did you ever find out how?

  • @1827641

    @1827641

    2 ай бұрын

    @@ftwgunnerpwns no, never. Make me know if you discover how!

  • @bryan_nfs5593
    @bryan_nfs55932 жыл бұрын

    BEAST!

  • @vageliskomninos2723
    @vageliskomninos27235 ай бұрын

    cannot reproduce your steps. my cursor on the left side is not changing to a magnifying glass to reduce the selected area to as small portion as you did so to see the notes

  • @OndrejPopp
    @OndrejPopp9 ай бұрын

    Tx!

  • @iddy
    @iddy7 жыл бұрын

    Mine was reaaaally blurry (just big sqares of red and white..) you can change the quality of the spectrogram to fix this: view > preferences > spectrograms > FFT, Window Size (bigger is better) Thanks for this video :)

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    7 жыл бұрын

    You're right that the FFT Window makes a difference, thanks for the help. A higher value is not always better, as too high makes it hard. My other videos on the spectrogram explain this a bit.

  • @groszak1

    @groszak1

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bigger gives more frequency resolution but less time resolution. 2048 and 4096 are one of the best options.

  • @christinakoller3621
    @christinakoller36213 жыл бұрын

    Hey mdthib, I think it's great to use a tool like audacity to figure out the score by hand. I found there is a well written program that will automatically do this called AnthemScore 4.13.0, and it presents to you the spectogram and it transcibes it into a score and it can be converted into mdi, giving you the exact timing and loudness of each note. You can print out the score into pdf and also transcribe the score into any key, which is a nice little creativity tool. Human playing is not robotic and a professional might play different measures say at 59, 60, 59, 58, 57, 60 beats per minute, and the program will provide those distinctions if you want to break the timing down exactly.

  • @tonyHern865
    @tonyHern8653 жыл бұрын

    at 2:48 how do you activate the zoom like this in audacity? By default, I don't have the magnifying glass icon like you

  • @ghbytdsrfhb

    @ghbytdsrfhb

    3 жыл бұрын

    f for us newbies here late lol

  • @fermatreturns1008

    @fermatreturns1008

    Жыл бұрын

    See below, the question has been answered...

  • @mirwislanger4792
    @mirwislanger47923 жыл бұрын

    hi,which version is this Audacity ??

  • @ezno_2603
    @ezno_26035 ай бұрын

    could you please make an updated video for the newest version?

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    5 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the encouragement-I might? Cheers!

  • @2000SkyView
    @2000SkyView4 жыл бұрын

    Can you change pitch if the recording is 1/2 step flat?

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    4 жыл бұрын

    yes, change pitch is an effect in Audacity.

  • @nikitas8353
    @nikitas83534 жыл бұрын

    Sorry but what song is this?

  • @bobbysanchez6308
    @bobbysanchez63088 жыл бұрын

    How do you superimpose a piano keyboard on the side?

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    8 жыл бұрын

    I don't know that you can do that. I just use a guitar or keyboard to establish what a given target tone is when transcribing.

  • @moorthyconsulting

    @moorthyconsulting

    5 жыл бұрын

    2 years late - but are you thinking of the app called AnthemScore?

  • @yuriyfazylov5506
    @yuriyfazylov5506 Жыл бұрын

    I thought you had found a tool to transcribe the spectrogram into notes

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    Жыл бұрын

    Nope! I think there are tools that do that, but for a tune like this I'd rather rely on my judgment than anything automated.

  • @paulaungiers8734
    @paulaungiers87345 жыл бұрын

    Will Audacity let you export a wav into a musicxml file, please?

  • @matthewthibeault9819

    @matthewthibeault9819

    5 жыл бұрын

    I have no idea, sorry! If my memory is right, probably not (I think that format is more about notation than audio recordings).

  • @christinakoller3621

    @christinakoller3621

    3 жыл бұрын

    Try a program called AnthemScore 4.13.0.

  • @oazlast8844
    @oazlast88444 жыл бұрын

    can you see notes of this song

  • @GeorgeGeorge-xj2bc
    @GeorgeGeorge-xj2bc3 жыл бұрын

    If you cant learn music because is difficult the next thing is to think to learn to read spectrograms because this might be easier.

  • @donniumar767
    @donniumar7672 жыл бұрын

    how do you zoom freq from 2000 down 0 hz i try my audacity cant work

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sorry, this was 6 years ago and I can't recall... nor am I sure current Audacity retains this ability. Maybe check the preferences?

  • @YetAnotherInternetUser

    @YetAnotherInternetUser

    2 жыл бұрын

    You've probably almost certainly figured it out since it's been 5 months, but for posterity: View -> Zoom -> Advanced Vertical Zooming, then you can click and drag like in the video

  • @fermatreturns1008

    @fermatreturns1008

    Жыл бұрын

    @@YetAnotherInternetUser Thanks, I was searching for that!

  • @aggabus
    @aggabus Жыл бұрын

    4:12 i see like 12 lines of notes? for a violin 1note

  • @mdthib

    @mdthib

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, you are seeing the harmonic overtone series for a single note. You can look it up, but there are resonances when even a single note plays. It's fascinating!

  • @groszak1
    @groszak17 жыл бұрын

    No, it's obviously not pam-pam-pam-pam, you are wrong...

  • @jhovo2008
    @jhovo2008 Жыл бұрын

    Así que de esto nació el programa Antehmscore

  • @ottercrk23
    @ottercrk233 жыл бұрын

    you just don't get it

  • @TenninWorks
    @TenninWorks8 жыл бұрын

    Seems like bad playing more than anything

  • @ruthsmith7053

    @ruthsmith7053

    2 жыл бұрын

    @TenninWorks, Just Irish or Scottish playing, don't be rude about the content of the playing. Listen to the folk music

  • @Naratis
    @Naratis2 жыл бұрын

    Sounded like a D to me

  • @aggabus
    @aggabus Жыл бұрын

    really see 3:33

  • @Pierrick584
    @Pierrick5843 жыл бұрын

    7:50, that's not "Do ré mi" but "ré mi fa#"

  • @7Earthsky
    @7Earthsky4 жыл бұрын

    Fix your own audio microphone when recording your voice....No one wants to hear every lip smacking spit pop when you talk....Had to stop listening as it was gross.

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