how to get chords out from wav instrument file?

[assaf_zo]

hi

sorry for the newbie question but ...
how do i get chords out from wav instrument file?
not by hearing offcourse is there any program that does it ?

thanx for the help

[standalone]

Band in a box claims to do that, but I don't know how good is at this.

[Tijl]

Well, even though you did say "not by ear" i still prefer that method
otherwise you could use a frequeny analyser to check out the peaks and thus notes used in that song, use the new SPAN by voxengo...it tells you what note corresponds to a specific frequency

i guess thats the way chord/note extracting programs work as well, but now you'll learn something

[tapper mike]

power tracks by pg music does it as well.
It analyzes each note and forms a hypothesis based on all the notes of a given half bar.

[standalone]

Yes, Power Tracks and Band in a Box are both from Pg Music.

[jancivil]

hi

sorry for the newbie question but ...
how do i get chords out from wav instrument file?
not by hearing offcourse

yeah, why would somebody doing music do something by hearing.

[standalone]

hi

sorry for the newbie question but ...
how do i get chords out from wav instrument file?
not by hearing offcourse

yeah, why would somebody doing music do something by hearing.

Some kind of perversion?.

[jancivil]

Yeah, as we all know at kvr, music is something done by machines running software, which has the oftimes irrelevant side effect of being heard. Hearing something in the first place is besides the point. That's the loop's job.

[seacouch]

'Transcribe' does some simple chord analysis. Nice tool.

http://www.seventhstring.com/

[sylfid]

Melodyne?
http://www.celemony.com/

[tapper mike]

i agree with Ms. Civil.
Software can be an asset or a crutch.

You claim you want to make music. People who make music have a special title. They are called musicians. If you want to be a musician the first place you should start is by understanding music. If you want to understand music that is heard then listening to the music is the direction you should steer towards.

There are no blind graphic designers. Graphic designers study design by looking at designs and trying to recreate them using graphic instruments. Music is not a graphic design. Music is an auditory design. Musicians should study music by listening to it and using instruments to recreate the sound.

[PaulSC]

There are no blind graphic designers.

That's an untrue and unfortunate statement in an otherwise worthwhile post.

[seacouch]

I thought about giving the "you should train your ears" lecture, but I gave myself the "you should answer the question" lecture, and answered the question instead.

[DrawMusic]

Ditto that sentiment.

How did not having ears expert enough to hear exactly what's on the recording, and wanting some software assistance, become a moral failing?

If we learn to play a song from a chord chart, instead of record-copying it ourselves, is that also "cheating"?

I give odds that I've spent more time record-copying than most of the "lecturers" on this thread, plus I took actual ear-training classes in college, but I don't claim to have "perfect ears" and I find that a good spectrogram shows me things in the sound that I couldn't detect with my ear.

[tapper mike]

Give a man a fish he eats for a day.