Re: [LAU] seeking a creative songwriting solution.

Hello Karen, If I was on Windows and didn't care about free software, the DAW I would use hands-down would be Reaper. It has notation built-in and is a full featured DAW with cross-platform support. I would recommend Ardour too, but it doesn't have notation support yet. Finale has some form of voice to notation capabilities, maybe you can try a free version of that and see if it works for you, if you need to use auto-notation from your voice. Sonic-visualizer is what I mean. You can open audio files with and then enable a spectrogram view. From there, you can highlight fundamental frequencies to find out what notes they are. I use Sonic-visualizer for many different things, including this, and I believe there is a windows version. Let me know if you have any other questions, Brandon Hale On 5/15/22 10:54 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi Brandon, > Thanks for the energetic ideas. > As shared, i am not in Linux, as I have not found an inclusive for me > way to use the platform. > Sonic visuals?  if I am correct, what platform supports this tool? > Karen > > > > On Sun, 15 May 2022, Brandon Hale wrote: > >> Hello Karen, >> I mean, I think you should just go for it. You could totally record >> your melodies, and then fill them in with a DAW of your choice. Then, >> take what you've written to a notation software. >> >> If you're on Linux, maybe Muse or Rosegarden would work for you, as >> they have notation built-in. If you don't care about notation >> built-in, Ardour is a great DAW for recording and processing. >> >> If you're looking for software that will notate for you based on what >> you've sang, I have to admit I don't know of a good one on Linux to >> do that. Sonic-visualizer can track pitch of frequencies, so maybe >> that's where I would start, but maybe someone else has a better >> solution. You could always go the old-fashioned way and just dictate >> what you've sang later, after you've recorded yourself and fleshed >> out the orchestration around your recording. It's also good practice >> and can be fun and give you unsuspecting results, which can be nice. :) >> >> Let me know if I've answered your question, >> >> Brandon Hale >> >> On 5/15/22 6:24 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>>  Hi imaginative folks, >>>  honestly, I do not have a direct Linux box itself, I use shells, >>> because I >>>  have yet to find an adaptive workable tool...but I suppose >>> scripting is >>>  possible. >>>  That being said, an idea in another Windows environment may work as >>> well. >>>  what I am wondering is this. >>>  How possible might it be to  use  your singing voice for composing? >>>  what I mean is to sing the parts into your software of choice, then >>>  using that software to first add the orchestrations, playback etc., >>> then >>>  produce that music in printable form? >>>  The last task is less important for the moment. >>>  getting my pieces out of my head, and into  arranging and composing >>> form >>>  is though. >>>  thoughts? >>>  Karen >>>  _______________________________________________ >>>  Linux-audio-user mailing list >>>  Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >>>  https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >> https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> >>