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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Chord Pickout 1.5
"Okay, it's not perfect--yet, but it's still a big help."
Pros: With a little music knowledge and this program, you can easily figure out any song. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's good enough for someone with enough music sense to knock out the chords in no time. It's still a very cool program that you should download the demo just to see it work.
Cons: Not perfect. It could lead you astray. Plus, it isn't free and I can't highly reccomend any program that will end up costing money.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Chord Pickout 1.4
Pros: easy tu use. Just amusing to see the software try to transcript songs.
Cons: It's just not usefull. It is distracting to check out how the software does songs you allready know but don't count on it to learn new songs. It is rarely right. I tried a few songs like the thrill is gone. Since the chords are in major and the guitar plays in a pentatonic minor scale (the blues scale), then it transcript in minor. I tried Britney's Spears Toxic. Not impressive. I also tried a few other but not impressive.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
2 stars
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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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Chord Pickout 1.5
"Can come in handy.. but something you should all know before downloading"
Pros: What JDreller said^.
Before i came across this - i've been looking for something like this for quite some time.
Cons: To add to JDreller's comments - it only mentions "14 day trial"... well not only that - the demo only analyzes and transcribes the 18-20 seconds per song. that rather irks me. it would be better if it were FULLY-FUNTIONAL during its entire trial period! i'm hoping that be the case in the next coming future version(s)...(if there will be any)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Chord Pickout 1.4
"Absoluty wonderfull at least.... if u have the full version"
Pros: PERFECT CHORDS NO MORE BAD CHORDS !!!!
Cons: the fact that in the trial u can only change the first 20 seconds
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