Will I need a Mic for my computer for Digital Ear and/or IntelliScore

Jan 22, 2011
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Mics and other programming needs for Digital Ear and Intelliscore
by: Robert Curtis

Hi Rich,

Good questions.

Both Digital Ear and IntelliScore need a microphone to convert your singing into notes that can then be displayed as notation. Once you've created this file, a midi file of musical notes, you can view it as notation or you may want to export it to a more sophisticated notation program like one from Finale or Sibelius - or a sequencer program like Cubase or ProTools for PCs or Digital Performer or Logic for a Mac if you're ready to record and build tracks around your midi file.

By the way, if you're talking about keeping the words intact then you're talking about having to make an audio file, essentially a .wav file, of which the notes of your sung words can still be interpreted by sophisticated sequencer programs like Digital Performer for instance as an alternative to using Digital Ear or Intelliscore. If you have such a sequencer program I suggest trying that first. However, if you're going to want to do a lot of editing of your sung notes then bear in mind that it is rather hard to manipulate a .wav file as far as changing notes, key, tempo, time signature and the like and keeping your recording still sounding anything close to natural. It can be done but I'd say it's a huge learning curve - especially for the beginner to novice even.

If you're primarily focused on wanting to work up further notation like including chords too or just want a nice sheet music like display of your notes then I suggest checking out a notation program like Finale Songwriter for a starting point and you can see the compare features of their other lesser and more sophisticated programs at the following link; http://www.finalemusic.com/CompareFeatures.aspx?compare=songwriter To take a test drive I suggest the Finale Songwriter trial demo version at http://www.finalemusic.com/SongWriter/Demo.aspx You could still use Digital Ear or Intelliscore and import their files into Finale.

Anyway, you can further check out Digital Ear here (copy and paste link into your browser address bar if not clickable): http://hop.clickbank.net/?songware/epinoisis&siteurl=www.digital-ear.com And IntelliScore here (copy and paste link into browser address bar if not clickable): http://intelliscore.net/. Also, they both have free trial downloads and are both well regarded. Both are under $175 for their most expensive packages.

Hope that helps, my best,

Robert

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