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- Price: Free to try (14-day trial); $24.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 22, 2005
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From Luxand Development :A friend of mine has perfect pitch. The only instrument he needs to guess chords for a song is his own ear. He can listen to a song and easily pick out the right chords. But, what about the rest of us, who don't have this gift? There are hundreds of new songs produced every month. Sometimes scores for current songs are hard to find. This is where Chord Pickout can help. This program uses its artificial intelligence to guess chords for you. All you have to do is to load a media file (wav or mp3) and click a button. Chord Pickout will transcribe the music and write down the recognized chords. Version 1.11 transcribes up to 35 seconds in the trial mode.
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Version: Chord Pickout 1.11
Pros: Very easy to use -- you open the song file, it processes it, and it shows you the chords it "found" above the waveform.
Cons: Chord Pickout 1.11 (hereinafter CP) just doesn't do a reliable job. I passed it a few songs and got mixed results. I started with a couple 80's tunes by Yes, because I dug that CD out recently. The first one I suspected would be a challenge for the software -- "Leave It," which starts with a capella vocal harmonies. As I suspected, CP couldn't make heads or tails of it, but vocal waveforms have a lot of strange harmonics, and the heavy reverb couldn't be helping. So I fed it "Hold On" from the same CD and the results were distinctly better, although there was still some chaff growing amongst the wheat, if you know what I mean. Again, once the vocals came in, the quality dipped.
I ran a few more songs past it and the results continued to be mixed, even on bits I thought would be shoe-ins, like the opening guitar solo of "China Grove." I also noticed that CP's "repertoire" doesn't seem to extend beyond 7th chords. Nothing diminished, nothing suspended...
If I can offer an opinion: where I think CP might be failing is that it needs help sorting out the useful information from the distractions. What's the point trying to find chords in the opening 2-bar drum riff of "Hold On?" If CP provided a way for the user to indicate measure beginnings and endings, or tempos, or even which sections of a track could be ignored, it might be able to use that info to improve its chord detection. But until such features are added or the AI is drastically improved, CP will be of limited use, unless there are no other programs out there to do the job.
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