Seventh String Software has announced an update to its software application designed to help transcribe recorded music. Version 9.30 of Transcribe! comes with various improvements and fixes.
The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn’t do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. It has many transcription-specific features not found on conventional music players.
It is also used by many people for play-along practice. It can change pitch and speed instantly, and you can store and recall any number of named loops. So you can practice in all keys, and you can speed up as well as slow down.
Changes in Transcribe! v9.30
- Added support for separate Stem files (i.e. stem files in multiple separate files, as opposed to multiple sound tracks in a single file which we have supported for some time). Accessed via the Stem Files command on the File menu.
- In the Keyboard Shortcuts and MIDI Shortcuts dialogs you can now sort the list by command category or command name as well as by keystroke or MIDI command as before.
- New “Recent Folders” submenu on the File menu, making it easy to load files from folders which you have used recently for sound or transcription files.
- Volume slider in the lower toolbar now has a text panel readout showing 0 – 100.
- If the current EQ corresponds to a preset, a message is shown in the EQ page of the Fx window to say so.
- When editing the text of a text block you can now use shift-enter in the text box to end the dialog as if you had pressed OK.
- Mac: some minor fixes to keyboard shortcuts, e.g. the “Clear” key can now be used (the key to the left of the “=” key on the number keypad). Fixed a weird bug using the asterisk key as a shortcut with a German keyboard. Restored the standard Command-comma shortcut for Preferences.
- The percent speed slider in the lower toolbar now displays decimal places in the text.
- The “Sound File Info” window is now called the “Transcription Info” window. The “Open from this folder” buttons have been removed as they are no longer needed – use “Recent Folders” instead.
- The commands EQPreset01 – EQPreset09 are now called EQPreset1 – EQPreset9 for consistency with other numbered commands. If you have programmed a keyboard shortcut for any of these you will need to use the Keyboard Shortcuts command to set it to the new name.
- Various other minor changes and bug fixes.
Transcribe! for Windows, Mac, and Linux is available to purchase for $39 USD. The update is free to existing users.
More information: Seventh String Software
