This really could be the forefront of music notation once the polyphonic recording system, and perhaps a “de-humanization” feature, are perfected. While my excitement is a bit tempered, I encourage the development team to continue pushing this program’s limits. Overall, ScoreCloud has great base features and great potential. When I record over 60 seconds of music, I tended to get errors and timeouts.īesides these notes, the program works really well if you’re recording single lines and know enough musically to clean up the score afterwards. The program, while incredibly powerful and easy to use, can be a bit buggy when transcribing audio. (It is interesting how this really exposes how notation is just ink on paper, and performance is so much different in actuality.) My suggestion would be for the developers to have a “de-humanize” function–not just a quantization, but something that summarizes the human elements to create notation. The slight timing differences, a little bit of twang, and differences in picking attack that most artists use on a guitar, even when playing “straight”, are differentiated in the notation and require a lot of cleanup. ![]() While the transcription feature is great, it requires a lot of cleanup. I had been excited by my success in the first post. I was really excited to try out the polyphonic/Pro version of the software. The result is an acoustic version of one phrase of John Petrucci’s song Glasgow Kiss. It even helped me discover a wrong note when I recorded one note in the rhythm guitar part wrong! It gave me the incorrect chord in that case, which I saw and was able to correct. This feature automatically detects the chords in your piece/song and inputs the appropriate chord symbols. I was then able to use the Auto Chords feature, which worked really well. For example, I changed the music font to Bravura, renamed and re-ordered the staves, added markings, and did some basic cleanup. Having the lines recorded, I quickly was able to do some editing and engraving. This made the rest of the process really easy. Like my previous post, I was very happy with the monophonic transcription–this program does a great job recording one note at a time! This feature was the main reason I was so excited about the program in my last post. Keeping my chord background, I overdubbed the lead guitar part, rhythm guitars, and bass parts. I decided to try recording an excerpt of John Petrucci’s song Glasgow Kiss to get a better handle on the program. Notice how sometimes it gets the chord right, but other times it gets quite messy. Here are some examples of how I tried out the polyphonic feature. For these reasons, it seems that a piano would be better suited for this than a guitar. Not playing each chord tone simultaneously (even rolling the chord a little), different inflections, minor note omissions, and string buzzing can really mess up ScoreCloud’s transcription. ![]() In addition, using very large chords (5 or 6 strings) is very hard to have the program notate. I soon discovered that it is best to play every single chord tone absolutely simultaneously. It took me a few tries to understand the program, which is reasonable with a new feature like this. ![]() To do this, I tuned up my acoustic guitar and sat in front of my laptop with headphones on. My main goal when reviewing the Pro version was to explore the polyphonic (multiple notes at one time) audio recording feature. As I discovered in my first review, it works remarkably well for MIDI and single-note (monophonic) audio recordings. ![]() ScoreCloud’s claim to fame is the ability to notate music as you play it. I recently tried the Pro version, and here are my findings. You may have read my review of some of the basic features of the music notation software ScoreCloud: ScoreCloud – Software that Notates Your Music.
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