Riffstation Alternatives

Sonic Visualiser

Sonic Visualiser is a free, open-source application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, designed to be the first program you reach for when want to study a music recording closely. It's designed for musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers, and anyone else looking for a friendly way to look at what lies inside the audio file.

MusicTrans

Without touching any control, MusicTrans will give you a graphical view of what notes are being played. An intermediate player can easily get the basic chords just by looking at the screen, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! From there you can start using the different sound processing techniques included in MusicTrans to catch all the details. With MusicTrans you can slow down a song, remove the vocals, isolate certain frequencies, and more.

Amazing Slow Downer

Change the speed of the music - from 20% (one fifth speed) to 200% (double speed) without changing the pitch. Wrong key? Change the pitch in semi-tones - at full or changed speed. Out of tune? Adjust the pitch in cents (100ths of a semi-tone) to suit your instrument. Real-time processing - all described above is done in real-time - just insert the CD and press the play button! Also slows down MP3, AIFF, AAC/MP4 and wave files on your computer in real-time.

Transcribe!

The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. It has many transcription-specific features not found on conventional music players.

Features:

• Local Search
• MP3 to Sheet Music
• Music Composer

Tune Transcriber

Learn and transcribe music for free from your web browser (no install needed). Load MP3s or a YouTube video. Slow down music, change pitch, add marks, beats, loops and easily navigate the song.

Features:

• Chords detection
• Key changer
• Music Player

Capo

Capo is a revolutionary tool for all musicians who want to get better at playing the music they love! Features: - Automatically detects guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele or 5-string bass chords for all your songs in your music library. - Transcribe your music marking the notes you hear (and see!) in the song by drawing on top of the spectrogram. - Speed up or slow down songs to any speed without affecting pitch or song quality. - Transpose songs and see the chords adjust automatically.

Features:

• iTunes integration
• Music Player