FFT

FFT is a program to decompose a piece of recorded music into its constituent musical notes. To actually retrieve the notes that were originally played is not a trivial task, and this program certainly only provides a smattering of clues, but it does provide some assistance in the task of transcribing a piece of music by ear.

Features

• Supports WAV, AU and MP3 format soundfiles
• Choice of central channel, left or right channel, or stereo difference channel (via the ‘Stereo effect...’ button on the toolbar)
• Adjustable brightness (the first slider on the toolbar)
• Adjustable time resolution / note definition (the second slider on the toolbar)
• Cached and multithreaded display ensures that the user-interface is always responsive

Download

© 2003 Richard Collins

• FFT (258K)

Links

Related software

• Exact Audio Copy – free program to rip music from CDs with error-correction features that set it apart from other programs.
• Lame, Razorlame – free (GNU GPL) MP3 compression software. Razorlame provides a GUI front-end to Lame's command-line interface.
• AP Guitar Tuner – does exactly what it says on the tin.
• Powertab – freeware that lets you produce high-quality guitar tabulature, play it, print, save to text etc..
• Transcribe! – similar brief to my program, but costs £25 for the full version.
• Slow-Down – slows music down, to make it easier to transcribe. Demo available (though pretty useless), full version $45 (!!).

Programming links

• MinGW32 – free Windows C/C++ compiler, the Windows port of GCC.
• GC – free (BSD-style licence) portable garbage collector for C/C++, written by Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers.
• MAD – free (GPL) MP3 decoding library, written by Robert Leslie.

Musical links

• On-Line Guitar Archive – collection of table for most (?!) songs.
• Guitarists.net – mirror of OLGA, discussion forum and links to guitar-related software.

Email: richard@rejc2.co.uk

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