[LAU] seeking a creative songwriting solution.

[Brandon Hale]

Hello Karen,

> Built in notation would be ideal, but what you shared which has me 
> interested is  a program that can notetate what  I sing.
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 visuals?  if I am correct, what platform supports this tool? 
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.
> Built in notation would be ideal, but what you shared which has me 
> interested is  a program that can notetate what  I sing.
> 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
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