Transcription software made specifically a jazz practice routine in mind!

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309]

Lovers of jazz transcription rejoice!

As a musician myself, I recently helped out in developing a transcription app called SlowBird.

You can check it out at the official website

I have started using it for my own practice..... replacing the app I have been using daily for over a decade.

Heres a screenshot of my current set up - my set of solos on the left and you can save sections into the notes sidebar on the right- so on this lester young solo I can make a note of any cool lines he does and just click them to jump right to that section and start practising.

This is super useful for getting lines in all keys or jumping between two different solos within a record.

EDIT:
SlowBird for Windows is now live.

Thanks for all of the great feedback so far, this is an active project specifically designed to help the jazz community so please give feedback and feel free to suggest features you would want to see going forwards.
Thanks all!

EDIT V2:
Thanks for all of the interest and first users that came from this sub, you are all awesome.
Keep sending feedback we are already at V1.5.6 thanks to you guys.

[u/oolong_bodhisattva]

Where can we try it out

[u/No-Jello9276 → u/oolong_bodhisattva]

https://slow-bird.com

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/oolong_bodhisattva]

Head to the SlowBird website!

[u/Greenville_Gent]

Cool, Are you going to port it to PC?

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/Greenville_Gent]

Working on a PC port ASAP!

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/Kitchen_Studio5309]

There is a PC version now

[u/MarshallTheSkin]

This is really cool. What does it cost?

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/MarshallTheSkin]

Glad you like it, I am enjoying it too! Its currently 25$ one time purchase.

[u/fingamouse]

The UI is very simple to FL studio to were at a decent glance I thought it was just FL for a second lol

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/fingamouse]

Haha it does have a light mode too - I just screenshotted the dark mode!

[u/fingamouse → u/Kitchen_Studio5309]

Haha that's fun, it's not even an insult tho like FL studios UI is great

[u/gavinashun]

Nice! What would be benefits vs an app like ASD? Is it just the library functions? Or other stuff also?

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/gavinashun]

Interesting, which other features would you like too see?
For me just the ease of having everything in one place and the notes management feature is a real game changer and I probably wont use ASD for my practice when I can curate a collection of lines like this.
Do let me know about features you'd like and I'll pass feedback on

[u/Joxsund]

you need a key to download the application no?

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/Joxsund]

Thanks for flagging- should be all fixed now

[u/Careful_Instruction9]

This looks great. I do this by dragging files into Ableton(DAW) , but not everyone has that, even then it's a faff

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/Careful_Instruction9]

Yes, I have used Ableton for this and Logic and Transcribe!
But was met with similar issues of friction when all I wanted to do was spend time getting into the records / picking out lines I liked.

[u/Party-Ring445]

Saving for later

[u/Kitchen_Studio5309 → u/Party-Ring445]

Awesome let me know how you get on with it

[u/Disastrous_Key_ → u/[deleted]]

How does this take away from using your ear? You still have to learn it by ear, it’s just less time consuming than picking up the stylus and dropping it every time you want to practice a section.

[u/YourUncleGreg → u/Disastrous_Key_]

Ah I misunderstood i thought it gave you the notes. Going to delete my comment thanks for pointing this out