St. Peters, and a Miracle Voice Teacher
It's been a low-energy and off-my-peak couple of days here for reasons I won't bore you (or gross you out) with. Had to take a run up to Denver, but mostly I've been sitting quietly and reading. I finished a book that I don't really recommend unless you're chained to the potty and need to kill ( Read more... )
Music Lab HARMONY ($47.99) - seems to get pretty close to what you were describing, especially the “SING” chapter, but the sales page (here) is short on screen shots, so I’m not to sure.
Practica Musica ($109.99) - the same vendor offers (here) Ars Nova’s Practica Musica, the feature-set of which seems a little like overkill, but might just cover all the bases. The only use of the word “sing” in the copy refers specifically to singing rounds, but the software accepts input via “a microphone using Vocalis™ pitch recognition technology (microphone not included), from the computer's letter keys 'piano', from the screen piano or fretboard using the mouse, or from an external MIDI keyboard, or any combination of these.“
Chaumet Software’s “Canta” - (here) offers a free demo version, accepts MIDI input (so one could play in the selected harmony line) and appears to have a pretty straight-forward, Oscilloscope-like, interface (geek-friendly). The asking price for the full version is the nearly the same as HARMONY, above, so, unless the demo proved to be just what you’re looking for, I’d pass.
Sing & See - (here) looks like it only addresses single-note (rather than melody-line) matching. The professional version (highest-priced item I found at $138) does offer spectrographic and oscilloscope-style readouts, but, not, in my humble, what you had in mind.
These are just the results of a cursory hunt. I came across references to other titles that, for the most part, appear to be out of production. Also, I didn’t hunt very deep for professional-grade stuff or for free- share- donation- or nag- ware, so there are other avenues if none of the above appeals.
Please let me know what you think. I’ve been stumbling around the edges of digital-audio production / digital-audio workstations for a couple of years now and I’d be interested in tossing this particular ball around with you at greater length.
Mike Sargent
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