At 9/14/07 05:11 PM, FrostyJ wrote:
I suck at tabbing out songs by ear and I'm having trouble finding tabs for a lot of the songs I want so I was wondering if there was any software out there I can use to import audio files (mp3, wave, wma, etc.) then the program will write out guitar tabs for it (and possibly for the other instruments). If anyone knows of any software with these capabilities please let me know.
This simply can not be done.
The only way it could "possibly" be done, was if you somehow sampled the song
with a high fidelity recorder, filtered out the guitar track (with some magical piece of gear. In reality, this is nigh on impossible unless you have the original tracks - which you don't) - complete without any other background noise -
and then played it back into a (make believe) tone recognizer that would then somehow
transcribe it into a tab.
To my knowledge, there is no software (or hardware) available to complete those two last steps, because to be honest... it would be way too expensive to produce, for such a limited target group (most advanced guitarists are able to tab pretty decently by ear, and the ones who are not keep damn quiet about it).
The best you could do is possibly to fuck around with an audio editor, and try to filter out the guitar track, then run it through a standard guitar tuner, and see what notes it comes up with.
That is, of course, nowhere near a real tab, but at least it will give you something to go by, when you're trying to tab by ear (something you ought to teach yourself sooner rather than later anyways).