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wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Mar 12, 2026 11:03 am

I have an old song that I want to redo but I don't have the sheet music. Just an audio recording. I could listen to it and painfully go through the process of figuring out each chord but this is not one of your C, Am, F, G tunes. It's very complex and my ears aren't what they used to be. So I'm looking for something that I can load into Cubase, then load the audio file and have whatever the vst is figure out the chords for me.

Does such an animal exist? Is there something in Cubase 14 itself that will do this? I prefer something that is free or at least cheap. This is going to be the only time I use this. There are things online that I've found but they only process a part of the song (one site only does 10 seconds) or the service is very expensive. I know years ago there were free sites that did the whole song but I guess times have changed.

Any assistance anyone can give me will be appreciated.

Thanks.

eLawnMust · Post by **eLawnMust** » Thu Mar 12, 2026 12:09 pm

Could be a rough go... Is there alot of modulation, resonance, harmonics as well?... This confuses any kinda chord detection... Personally I would use my own ear, perhaps 'slow everything down as much as possible without changing pitch' There's alot out there that can do that, Then find root note first, then third, fifth, seventh, ninth or whatever it may be... You may find a similar chord that may sound better than the original, say the original had a G7aug9 you may find a Gsus9 sounds better...

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Mar 12, 2026 1:52 pm

eLawnMust wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 12:09 pm Could be a rough go... Is there alot of modulation, resonance, harmonics as well?... This confuses any kinda chord detection... Personally I would use my own ear, perhaps 'slow everything down as much as possible without changing pitch' There's alot out there that can do that, Then find root note first, then third, fifth, seventh, ninth or whatever it may be... You may find a similar chord that may sound better than the original, say the original had a G7aug9 you may find a Gsus9 sounds better...

Thanks. That's what I did because I had a feeling I wouldn't get many responses. I did figure it out but boy was it rough. I wrote some damn complicated songs 40 years ago.

Kenmac · Post by **Kenmac** » Thu Mar 12, 2026 10:42 pm

I see that you've got this solved but for future reference I'd like to recommend a free program that I downloaded years ago called "Chordata" which is very easy to use. You just load in your audio file (WAV, MP3, etc.) and when you press the play button it displays the chords in the song. Here's the link:

https://clam-project.org/download/win/

It's the 4th link down. Hope this comes in handy for you and anyone else checking out this thread.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Mar 12, 2026 10:48 pm

Kenmac wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 10:42 pm I see that you've got this solved but for future reference I'd like to recommend a free program that I downloaded years ago called "Chordata" which is very easy to use. You just load in your audio file (WAV, MP3, etc.) and when you press the play button it displays the chords in the song. Here's the link:

https://clam-project.org/download/win/

It's the 4th link down. Hope this comes in handy for you and anyone else checking out this thread.

Thanks. Well, I tried it. It's not very accurate and it's not very stable either.

carambo · Post by **carambo** » Thu Mar 12, 2026 11:33 pm

Zplane Decoda is your friend, drop the audio file and it gives you the key, bpm and all the chords that you can then export as midi, timing in the midi file is not prefect but at least you have the chords

DotNoir · Post by **DotNoir** » Fri Mar 13, 2026 1:47 am

wagtunes wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 11:03 am Is there something in Cubase 14 itself that will do this?

Create a chord track in Cubase and drag the audio to it. It *tries* to figure out the chords, but has not been way too accurate always for me

jojoB3 · Post by **jojoB3** » Sun Mar 15, 2026 4:13 pm

Every second you put in transcribing only helps every ****ing facet of your music ability.
That and I doubt your song is complicated anyway.

Your orig question is as sadcore as it is lazy.
Reverse trajectory. This isn't brain surgery.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sun Mar 15, 2026 9:23 pm

jojoB3 wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 4:13 pm Every second you put in transcribing only helps every ****ing facet of your music ability.
That and I doubt your song is complicated anyway.

Your orig question is as sadcore as it is lazy.
Reverse trajectory. This isn't brain surgery.

FYI, I figured it out on my own and you're an ass.

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