Re: Software for chord identification (Roland Mathijssen )

Subject: Re: Software for chord identification
From:    Roland Mathijssen  <r.w.m.mathijssen(at)INAME.COM>
Date:    Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:19:07 +0200

Hi,

Two things that come to my mind (and parts are already in the other replies)

1) Will a simple chromatic tuner help? You can buy them in a music shop for 
somewhrere between 30 and 100 dollar. E.g. 
http://store.musicbasics.com/t-yt250.html
Or in PC Software you might check a page of my site where a mirror is of 
the original site (original no longer exists) 
http://www.didgeweb.com/didgetools/tuner_e.html

2) Expecially in modern music from the 60's and 70's (and maybe even 
later), recordings were regularly speeded up, to give the music more 
"power". Shifts of half to full notes are not uncommon. Not sure who it 
was, but there was a band that had a hit with such a speeded up single. 
However, they could no longer reproduce it in life situations because the 
range of the singer's voice couldn't handle the (shifted) high notes.

Hope this helps
Cheers
  Roland

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: AUDITORY Research in Auditory Perception
 > [mailto:AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Eric Jacobs
 > Sent: 07 September 2005 20:31
 > To: AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA
 > Subject: Software for chord identification
 >
 > Is there software for tone deaf people that can analyze a
 > segment of digitized sound and report the chord(s)?  The
 > specific application is in sound restoration, for recorded
 > music that was recorded at an unknown speed, and needs to be
 > "repitched".  This is often the case with older
 > 78 RPM records, where the actual playback speed can range
 > anywhere from 68 to 90 RPM.
 >
 > Eric Jacobs
 > The Audio Archive
 > Lexington, MA
 > USA
 > mailto:EricJ(at)TheAudioArchive.com
 >
 >
 >