If you copy the recording to your computer's hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead. They are very inconvenient for transcribing music as they are not designed for this purpose. There is some advice about speech transcription in Transcribe!'s help, under the heading 'Various Topics'.Ĭonventional music players (whether hardware such as a CD player or an iPod, or software such as Windows Media Player or iTunes) are really designed for people who want to listen to whole tracks. With its support for foot pedals and its superior slowed-down sound quality, it is an excellent choice for this purpose. There is some advice about play-along practice in Transcribe!'s help, under the heading 'Various Topics'.Īnd it is also used for speech transcription.

So you can practice in all keys, and you can speed up as well as slow down. It can change pitch and speed instantly, and you can store and recall any number of named loops.

It is also used by many people for play-along practice.

It has many transcription-specific features not found on conventional music players. It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both.

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