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I'd like to know 'what more'?
Long time since I tried Audacity but it was anywhere near as easy to use as ASD. Don't have iAnything.
Amazing SlowDowner, does pitch (without affecting speed), speed (without affecting pitch), has simple loop point creation and precision setting of start/end points, easy to store for later recall, has a graphic for EQ, and playlists for songs. Has anyone tried it for comparison? I'd be interested to know of anything better, but I'm sceptical. The one thing it doesn't have which I'd like is beat recognition to make setting loop points a little quicker.
Utterly brilliant.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I'll get me coat :o3
I think what I really like about Transcribe! is that it shows you the waveform of the song and you can add markers. The markers can be anything you want but the first thing I do is chop the song into parts: Intro, Verse, Chorus, Solo (and I usually add bar markers here), and so on, and that, for me is a "picture" of the whole song -- makes it so easy to remember what comes next when playing it live.
It does, of course, all the slow down stuff, keep pitch, alter pitch, everything else, too.
I also chop the song into parts using the Loop presets, quite often chopping a difficult solo into smaller sections. What I like about ASD is that you can specify pitch (if you need to) and speed by presets and you can change these on the fly whilst the song plays. Presets are very easy to set up simply by clicking a start and stop button whilst the song is playing.
As regards learning the structure, that goes into a word doc with the lyrics with chords above, that gets shared with the whole band so we are literally all singing from the same hymnsheet.
And then something like Transcribe! can do all of that, on the fly too, (including changing the pitch by just a few cents so Mr "non standard tuning Hendrix" can "tune" to you rather than you have to tune to him; and dropping Living On a Prayer a semitone or two cos your singer can't manage the original key), and then adds another layer of usefulness in the way you can navigate a song. (It also has a display which is invaluable on occasions which can tell you what note it is that you're listening too -- because occasionally it's difficult to work out by ear -- and you can toggle that display on and off.)
I find the waveform incredibly useful (not "need" just "bloody useful") cos I can see what parts I know and what parts I have yet to learn, how soon the various parts of the song are coming up, and so on. Maybe it's because I have to learn songs which I've never heard before, I dunno. Songs I'm familiar with probably wouldn't need this but it's so much a part of my workflow now that I use it all the time. As you say, the presets are useful and I use those in Transcribe! too.
The other thing is that Transcribe! can plays video too so you can see the vid in one window and the audio in another. As you slow the audio down the vid slows down too. Again, when it's there you use it. There was a recording of Satriani playing La Grange live and I just slowed it down lick by lick and that was a very useful way of learning those licks.