deCoda App by zplane

[Musical Gym]

Anyone using deCoda as compositional tool?
Seems to me that hosts like Studio One 4 can already do what this app offers for instrumental practice.

[PeterP_swe]

Anyone using deCoda as compositional tool?

I think it's meant to be a transcribing tool. I can't see any advantage in using this over a DAW or notation software when writing songs.

Seems to me that hosts like Studio One 4 can already do what this app offers for instrumental practice.

Yes, there's really nothing that you can't already do with most DAWs. But the tool where you can focus an instrument and see notes seems very nice. Kinda like a combination of iZotope RX and Melodyne. I can see why people would buy deCoda just for that feature alone.

[Musical Gym]

Thanks for feedback. Will visit their tutorials to see if it may be worth investing in at the intro price.

[Gamma-UT]

Anyone using deCoda as compositional tool?
Seems to me that hosts like Studio One 4 can already do what this app offers for instrumental practice.

It's not a compositional tool. It's for analysing existing songs, where you get more hints from the software in addition to being able to slow stuff down for transcribing.

[neverbeeninariot]

Reminds me of the now defunct Riffstation (https://www.riffstation.com/index.html). It could do the slowdown, filter, loop thing but it was awkward to use, and the algorithms were grainy at best.

zplane have (arguably) one of the best time-stretch algos around, which, if the ux is good would make this a shoe-in replacement, esp given the intro price. The midi features look pretty good too.

[Musical Gym]

I think I still have Riffstation. Will see if I'm able to resurrect my semi-crashed pc.
Song Surgeon has replaced it.
http://songsurgeon.com/Riffstation_LP.h ... 744fc4a8f7

[tatanka]

What I would really like to see is how the exported midi looks and what you can export. Of course this is disabled in demo and I cant find any info about it in the manual/vids. Only the part you have marked ? One "track" ? Whole song as one midi ? Whole song as different midi tracks ? If anyone has this would be really interested in any hints on this.

[DrMEM]

There's a sale on this at Plugin Boutique that's ending soon, and apparently there's still no midi export example. Googling for one turned up this thread. Does anyone have an example they could share yet?

[starflakeprj]

deCoda doesn't transcribe for you automatically, so the midi file depends completely on the notes you enter in the piano roll.

[yellowmix]

You are basically plotting every note, though it does a decent job guessing where and what they are. It has a good workflow though. You can have it loop over sections and have it play the original and your transcription to help you ensure it's correct. But again, since you are plotting every note it is extremely tedious. It should have an inverse mode, where it plots for you, then you can correct it.

[Aloysius]

I tried it on some stuff and it didn't get any of the chords right.

Didn't know it was possible to compose with it too.

Perhaps I didn't understand how to use it properly.

[v1o]

deCoda doesn't transcribe for you automatically, so the midi file depends completely on the notes you enter in the piano roll.

Zplane Decoda looks an awful lot like this entirely freeware and open source application called Tony. Like Decoda it shows you a visualisation and expects the user to transcribe the notes themselves.



https://sonicvisualiser.org/tony/

[tonedef71]

deCoda doesn't transcribe for you automatically, so the midi file depends completely on the notes you enter in the piano roll.

Zplane Decoda looks an awful lot like this entirely freeware and open source application called Tony. Like Decoda it shows you a visualisation and expects the user to transcribe the notes themselves.



https://sonicvisualiser.org/tony/

If I recall correctly, the WidiSoft WIDI Recognition System was one of the first audio-to-MIDI software tools to work that way.