# Transcribe (Seventh String) Transcribe! is a desktop app by Seventh String Software (Andy Robinson) for working out music from recordings by ear. Think of it as a player built for transcription. It does NOT transcribe for you, and it doesn't output notation or MIDI. It's also handy for play-along practice (slow the song down, loop the hard part) and even for transcribing speech. ## Key features - **Slow-down without pitch change**: 1/20x to 2x speed, plus pitch/tuning adjustment and transposition - **Loops**: name them, store them, recall them - **Waveform with markers**: sections, measures, beats, text labels and annotations. Click anywhere to play from that point - **Spectrum analysis**: note and chord guessing, an optional piano-roll view and an on-screen piano keyboard for reference notes - **Audio effects**: mono/karaoke mixing (centre-channel cut) and EQ to isolate parts - **Control**: keyboard shortcuts, foot pedal support, scripting - **Video playback** for most video files, plus recording from analog sources - **Platforms**: Windows, macOS, Linux - **Licensing**: paid, with a free 30-day evaluation It's not an audio editor, although it can save modified audio to a new file. It doesn't handle MIDI files either. ## References - https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html ## Related - [[Reaper]] - [[Tonocracy]]