web dev here who also plays guitar. i’ve been using audacity for recording and musescore for notation but wondering what else is out there.

anyone using anything cool for practice, transcription, or just messing around with sound?

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Sonic Visualizer to figure out the exact notes used in the original tracks.

    Does it have any specific functions for this that applications like Audacity or a DAW don’t have, or did you choose it for other reasons?

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      1 day ago

      I used to use a similar piece of proprietary spectral analysis software called SpectraLayers; after switching to Linux, I wanted to move to something open-source. So, I’m just used to that kind of workflow. I mean, Audacity also has an option to display a melodic scale spectrogram, but it’s rather awkward to use, and I don’t believe it ever giving an option to see the pitch of a specific note.

      Whereas, Sonic Visualizer lets me do this: