Here’s a more successful attempt with Ho Hey: It does fare much better with songs with simple rhythms and played to a click track. Perhaps not a fair test since he varies the tempo throughout the track. If you look at the James Hill track above the bar lines don’t correspond to any of the notes in the slightest. This is more accurate than the chord detection but still hit-and-miss. I did that and…Ĭapo will also attempt to detect the beats in the track and add bars. You can click a button to force it to add chords at each point. The auto-generated chords just showed a G7 at the beginning and a G at the end. I’ve been working out the solo to Waxie’s Dargle recently and put it into Capo 3. With anything more complicated it’s only useful in giving you the vaguest idea of what’s happening. The chords at the start are A5 – E7 – A7 – D5 but it transcribes them as Am – Bm – A7 – D. It doesn’t.Įven in the simple James Hill example it doesn’t work correctly. It is more expensive than apps with similar functionality like Anytune at $30 and Transcribe (Windows, Mac and Linux) at $40.Īnd if you’re just looking to slow music down there are free apps like VLC that’ll do the job (albeit not as well).Ĭhord Detection: Capo 3 is supposed to automatically work out the chords for a song for you. Price: Capo 3’s $50 price tag will put most people off. It even supports the ridiculous MacBook Touch Bar. They also do a good job keeping the app updated and fixing bugs. It has a huge range of options and makes them easily found without cluttering the app. Well Designed: The app is easy and intuitive to use. It has all the tunings you’re likely to need: standard, low-G, D-tuning, D-tuning with low-A, baritone and baritone with high-D. Ukulele Options: The app has a good range of ukulele options in the instrument tab. I didn’t even have to adjust the string each note was on (something that Capo isn’t always great at doing). The tab there was automatically generated from the marked up spectrogram and it’s pretty much spot on. Here I’ve marked up the spectrogram for Uke Talk: The Spectrogram with One Instrument: You can often get very good results from the spectrogram when there’s just one instrument on the track. Isolating by frequency I find more fiddly and harder to get a helpful result. If you’re lucky enough that the instrument you’re focussing on is panned either left or right I’ve found that isolation can work well. The sound isolation can also come in handy. Helpfully, it adjusts chords and tabs along with the changes to the pitch of the audio. More than that and you can get some audio artefacts particularly when pitching down. I’ve found that within 7 or 8 semitones you get a very clear sound. I also regularly use it to change the pitch of a song to a more uke-friendly key. Producing a sound that’s cleaner than anything else I’ve tried at low speed. You can slow it down as far as quarter speed. Sound Manipulation: I most often use Capo to slow down a piece of music. You can select by where the sound is panned in the speakers or by the frequency of the sound. In the left-hand column there are sliders that adjust the tempo of the song (between 0.25 and 1.5 speed) and the pitch (plus and minus an octave).Ĭapo will also isolate sounds in the recording. Each note you select on the spectrogram gets transferred onto the tab below.Ĭapo also allows you to manipulate the sound of the song. You generate the tabs by drawing over the notes on the spectrogram (you can see that in the image below). And at the bottom is where the tabs appear. Below that are the chords Capo thinks are played at that point in the song. This shows the pitches of all the notes Capo picks up in the track. Then in the middle you have the spectrogram. When you open a file (WAV, AIFF, MP3, MP4 or M4A) Capo 3 will present you with something like this (I’m using James Hill’s legendary Uke Talk for these examples):Īt the top you’ve got the track itself. What It DoesĬapo helps you to transcribe tabs and chords of a song from an audio file. If you want to try out the Mac version, you can find a free trial here. This review is for the macOS version of the app. So I’ve finally gathered my thoughts on it and am ready to review it. I’ve used Capo since version 2 and have been using Capo 3 for four years now. One tool I reach for is Capo 3 from SuperMegaUltraGroovy. You’d think after all these years I’d have got good at it. Learning songs by ear and tabbing them out is hard work.
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