I haven’t, but it looks interesting.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Joelman wrote:

From what I can decipher from the web site, you play, and it writes and records the music.
It could be very handy when writing original music, and for dissecting music from other sources.
I might try it, after I get my computer back from being fixed.

Joel

That would definitely be a great tool. I’ll have to look into it. I have some compositions that I would love to transcribe. I wonder if this saves to a standard format for notation.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

ldk wrote:

I had a quick look at their legal terms. Any music you upload is theirs to use anyway they want.

Damn! Well, there goes that.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Joelman wrote:

synchro wrote:

ldk wrote:

I had a quick look at their legal terms. Any music you upload is theirs to use anyway they want.

Damn! Well, there goes that.

hummmm. So a user pays to rent their app. Then they can then use the users uploaded music anyway they want.

yeah, that sounds just like every thing else in this world these days.
I knew it sounded to good to be true.
Joel

The value of any composition is its publication rights. I’m not about to give those up.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

DaveMudgett wrote:

Reading their music rights and terms of use, it seems to me that the situation is more complex than " Any music you upload is theirs to use anyway they want."

https://www.frettable.com/rights/

https://www.frettable.com/terms/

and specifically - https://www.frettable.com/terms/#permission-material

As I read it, they say that they can use the material on their site, but not elsewhere, and that the author retains his/her copyright. I do agree that this is giving something up. If I had copyrightable material I thought had serious commercial potential, I'd consult an attorney before using anything that had terms like this. To me, it's a slippery slope giving anybody formal permission to use anything. But I think terms of use like this are pretty common.

I see the functionality as merely a convenience - if I really wanted to transcribe my music to sheet music or tab, I'd just write the music or tab. There is quite a bit of software available to assist in transcription of music, including free/open-source software such as MuseScore, and a bunch of commercial software. There is a really simple little open source, Java-based program called TuxGuitar that I occasionally use to quickly generate simple sheet music or tab if I want to record a melody or something like that.

I avoid slippery slopes, like the plague. The songs I write aren’t likely to generate vast incomes, but they are mine, and I value them. It would be great to be able to generate a transcription, with nothing more than a smartphone, but I can see no benign reason for that stipulation.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

DaveMudgett wrote:

Reading their music rights and terms of use, it seems to me that the situation is more complex than " Any music you upload is theirs to use anyway they want."

https://www.frettable.com/rights/

https://www.frettable.com/terms/

and specifically - https://www.frettable.com/terms/#permission-material

As I read it, they say that they can use the material on their site, but not elsewhere, and that the author retains his/her copyright. I do agree that this is giving something up. If I had copyrightable material I thought had serious commercial potential, I'd consult an attorney before using anything that had terms like this. To me, it's a slippery slope giving anybody formal permission to use anything. But I think terms of use like this are pretty common.

I see the functionality as merely a convenience - if I really wanted to transcribe my music to sheet music or tab, I'd just write the music or tab. There is quite a bit of software available to assist in transcription of music, including free/open-source software such as MuseScore, and a bunch of commercial software. There is a really simple little open source, Java-based program called TuxGuitar that I occasionally use to quickly generate simple sheet music or tab if I want to record a melody or something like that.

Hi Dave Mudgett.
Have you tried MuseScore or TuxGuitar yourself?
I ask,, because I am looking for an app/program, to write the score as I play.

Sometimes I just muse play and hit something good sounding, but I often can’t re-create it.
So I’m looking for an input and write type of App/program for myself.
Thanks
Joel

synchro wrote:

The value of any composition is its publication rights. I’m not about to give those up.

That is correct and good to know as well. 99% of all the tunes I've played and recorded since 2020 are my own - not planning to pay some company to make money off of my compositions. Thanks for the warning!

On the other hand, it would be great to have an app in which you could load a tune and it then writes out the music sheets for you. I'm far too lazy to do all that for all the 70 tunes I've written and of some tunes I for the life of me cannot remember how the melody is played again or which chords it uses because I lost the paper on which I wrote it up or I didn't write it up :/ I've heard MuseScore and Tuxguitar or sth like that floating by - would these do that? Or are there other pieces of software that do that?

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