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Some software (like Finale) can record and transcribe notes played on a MIDI instrument (like a keyboard). Is there any software that will do this for acoustic (non-MIDI) instruments?

Basically I am looking for software that will listen to what I am playing and transcribe it into sheet music or tabs. Please let me know if this actually exists. Thanks!

The Melodyne program can analyze recorded soundfiles andconvert it into midi. A midifile you can convert again into a score.
However, none of this is foolproof, because programs dont know what you want to see if you play it.
For example, if you play a line of notes very staccato, hte program will write it as 16th- dottet 8thspause, 16th- pause, because that is ecatly what you played. But you want read on your score just quarter notes with a staccato point.
Or , if you play something with swinging 8 notes, it will write down everything rythmically very complicated, but you wanted to see just a line of 8th notes- but the program couldnt know that, because it doesnt compose music-and so forth.
So, in my point of view, you always have to edit the score after you played it, if you dont play it completely unmusically, so that the machine understands it, and the editing is so timeconsuming, that you just can write down everything.

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1. Tom Says:
   June 24th, 2010 at 12:44 am

   Hi

   What i would recommend purchasing is Sibelius 6 Professional (or Sibelius 6 Educational if your in education as you will get it quite a bit cheaper) and purchasing Audio Score with it as this software will sync in with Sibelius 6 and allow you to play in any type of acoustic instrument and it will notate it for you as you play along. I hope this has answered your question!

   Purchase Sibelius 6 Educational, Sibelius 6 Professional & Sibelius Student from the largest Sibelius UK Dealers http://dsmusic.co.uk 01600 772770
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2. Simple Man Says:
   June 24th, 2010 at 1:11 am

   The Melodyne program can analyze recorded soundfiles andconvert it into midi. A midifile you can convert again into a score.
   However, none of this is foolproof, because programs dont know what you want to see if you play it.
   For example, if you play a line of notes very staccato, hte program will write it as 16th- dottet 8thspause, 16th- pause, because that is ecatly what you played. But you want read on your score just quarter notes with a staccato point.
   Or , if you play something with swinging 8 notes, it will write down everything rythmically very complicated, but you wanted to see just a line of 8th notes- but the program couldnt know that, because it doesnt compose music-and so forth.
   So, in my point of view, you always have to edit the score after you played it, if you dont play it completely unmusically, so that the machine understands it, and the editing is so timeconsuming, that you just can write down everything.
   References :

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