Pitch RecognitionI spend a lot of time preparing data to make my animated graphical scores:
People often ask "can't all that stuff be done automatically?" The short answer is "no." A longer answer is "yes, but not well enough to save any time." It would be great if software could automatically extract a score from an audio recording,
They've been working on this for years; let me show you where they are now ... Here's a recording I made of a simple two-part piece: I took put that recording through pitch recognition software; here's the result: This is a pretty simple test: only two notes, single instrument, etc.
Sometimes, if there's no score for a piece and it's relatively simple,
That's what I did for this video: But that's a lot of work: nearly every note needed some sort of hand-adjustment.
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