Is there a plugin/app that detects piano/guitar CHORDS?

[skipscada]

Thanks, Sascha Frank. I'm cutting out your tips. Along with the method described by the guy behind Transcribe! (see above, www.seventhstring.com - some good links in his "links"-page as well), I'm sure I'll get better results. BTW, Transcribe! looks interesting. It's more like a helpful tool than an automatic transcription program. It slows down the track, does a spectrum analysis and positions the peaks above a pianoroll with note names, then leaves it to you to use that info in a sensible way. You could of course do all those things with other programs, but it's purpose-built, and consequently streamlined.

[Lunch Money]

Other than the obvious "power chords", I'm not sure what you mean by 5ths being obsolete? I'm not a humongoid theory guy (I wish I was, mind you!) but I seem to always be playing 5ths, on both guitar and keyboard.

Greg

[Sascha Franck]

Other than the obvious "power chords", I'm not sure what you mean by 5ths being obsolete? I'm not a humongoid theory guy (I wish I was, mind you!) but I seem to always be playing 5ths, on both guitar and keyboard.

Of course, you play them. I do as well, all the time. But unless they're altered, they're not required to analyze a harmonic context. That's the very reason why you won't find them in chord symbols either.
For analysis, root, third and seventh are the required things (plus, as said, altered 5ths, such as in a min7/b5 chord). At least that's how contemporary harmonic analysis is working.

[Lunch Money]

OK, now I gotcha.