Found out something very interesting. It turns out that... it doesn't matter what you're doing, the really important thing is what for you are doing it.
Originally LickPlayer was a binary program written in Delphi that could help to guess notes and voicings from MP3 records. It was not pushed out of the door due to several reasons, but became a prototype of online system for transcribing audio tracks. The beta version of the system has just been put to the forum and is available for public use for registered users here:
http://forum.bopland.org/lickplayer/file...There are still a lot of usability issues including accidentals overlapping and poor bass recognition, thought even in the present state it can be extremely useful for musicians giving them a chance to pick the exact chords and licks as played by the greats. How good is it? It is as good as 4 years of hard work... And many thanks to Yves Meyer whose research activities provided a base for many interesting DSP projects!
"Where someone failed, another has succeeded; what was unknown in one century, the next has discovered; science and the arts do not grind themselves into uniformity, but gain shape and regularity by carving and polishing repeatedly [...] What my own strength has not been able to uncover, I cease not from working at and trying out and, by reshaping and solidifying this new material, in moulding and heating it, I bequeath to him who follows some facility and make it more supple and malleable for him. The second will do the same for the third, which is why difficulty does not make me despair, nor, any the more, of my own weakness..."
Michel de Montaigne
It is now possible to post guitar tabs for arbitrary tuning. For this purpose Lilypond tuning notation has been adopted:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentati...To post tablature with tuning that differs from standard E-A-D-G-B-E, one has to specify number of semitones from C middle for each string. E.g. for 6 string guitar major 3rd tuning the tuning option should be "0 -4 -8 -12 -16 -20" (click 'show source' on the following example):
<guitar tuning="0 -4 -8 -12 -16 -20" tempo="220">
| Cmaj | A7+5 | Dm9 | G13 | Cmaj |
{
| (c1:5 e g b e)
| (a:6 c# g+ a c# f)
| (d:5 f c+ e)
| (g-:6 b f+ a b e)
| (c:5 e g b e)
}
</guitar>
