Songs2See is your personal companion to learn a musical instrument in a fun way. It rates your play in in realtime and helps you train sight reading and finger dexterity with its interactive sheet music display.
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Languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Spanish - Latin America
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Apparently, a bunch of guitarists flooded the reviews with negative feedback, because this isn't Rocksmith. Well, this isn't Rocksmith. If you have a guitar, maybe you'd better go with Rocksmith. But the guitar isn't the only instrument on this planet yet, and for the rest of the world Song2See provides a decent experience overall. Myself, I'm a flutist in training, and for me this app has filled a niche of apps you can whistle to. The app is, as you can see, sort of a rhythm game with pitch detection. There are two modes - you can either read tab, or read the sheets as the music plays, whatever is more convenient to you. If you know the notes but aren't a fast sheet reader (like me) you can select the sheet option but also make the app display the note names, so you'll be able to read quite fast. This app won't teach you basics of playing your instrument, so you'd better know how to play some basic songs already. There's a bunch of compositions you can play to out of the box, and they're done pretty well if you're into classical music (myself I'm 50/50). But the unlimited potential lies in the editor that comes with the app. Basically, you can import MIDI / ABC / MusicXML / GuitarPro formats and then, with a bit of editing, jam to your favorite anime / game / movie soundtracks. Luckily, the editor itself is clear, and comes with a manual too. [spoiler] Make sure to buy it though. [/spoiler] There's a huge amount of things in MIDI on the Internet, so if you want to play a track from that Japanese game from the 90s, you'll likely be able to, if you look for it well enough. If a certain track is too high or too low for your instrument, or has some troublesome fingerings, you can change the tonality, clef and transpose with just a few clicks. Neat. You can change the playback speed too, whether or not you want to hear accompaniment and metronome, work on specific troublesome parts, among some other things. The sound detection is decent, I haven't had any problems so far. But I have a good mic and a sound card, and my instrument can't play chords, so that may be biased. If you have problems with mic or good tone issues, you can try changing the pitch tolerance level in cents (by clicking on the cog). It worth mentioning that even though Song2See has some instrument presets, you can play it with any possible instrument, even simply hum along - only pitch matters. If your instrument is non concert pitch, you can select correct transposition. If your instrument is too high or too low, or you're too lazy, you can choose "ignore octaves" option, and any note C will be C - whether it's C5, C7 or C1. For me personally the app solved one big problem - it allowed me to be more lazy. Before I stumbled on it, I had to search for sheets online (soundtracks are harder to find), if I find something, then it's probably on MuseScore, and I can't print it because it's under paywall (IMSLP and such are for classical stuff mostly), so I have to write it on the paper by hand, sometimes transposing on the way. And then notate the note names too, since my sight-reading skills are very basic and I can't read at the same speed as I play. Sometimes I had to transcribe, which is even harder for an amateur flute player. With this app you have the whole internet of MIDI catalogue where you can find stuff that simply isn't in the sheets. With a few clicks you import it into the editor, tweak a bit where needed, and voila! You can play 600 AD from Chrono Trigger or Cosmo Canyon from Final Fantasy VII in just a few minutes. Sight-reading skills aren't required, because the note names are right here on the screen, as you play. The only noteworthy issue I've had so far is that the synthesizer for your accompaniment is kind of.. average. With huge MIDI files that have 10+ instruments playing simultaneously, the sound is close to noise. You can fix this by removing excessive parts (more often than not it's just either duplicates or minor sound effects). [spoiler] But, y'know, this is a music software. Could've been better [/spoiler] To conclude, if you're an amateur musician like me, and your instrument isn't guitar (and if it is... Y'know), and you want to play something without spending much effort on sight-reading, or maybe just find something that isn't on the sheets (like MIDIs of your favorite games), this will be very useful.
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So far it seems that this can be a great tool for learning an instrument. Especially if you have no other reference, like a teacher or someone else that can play with you. The only thing that I would like to mention is that the Flute in the game is actually a Recorder. Would we perhaps see an actual silver flute in the game anytime soon? Asking because I'm a flute player. I did buy the editor too, haven't spend enough time with it though. Would be nice if we could somehow get more songs in the game. But guessing that royalties are always an issue. Great job! Please continue to develop this game! It has lots of potential!
So far I've used this software with Alto Sax and guitar. For basic sight reading and learning proper tone generation on the sax, I'm impressed. For the Guitar, however, the software is more limited. You can certainly use it for learning scales and sight reading, but because there are so many different positions you can play a particular scale at on the neck, and the fact that the software seems to only support one position, it's not as helpful. Still, if you get your fingerings from a book and simply use the software to reinforce basic sight reading, I think it's probably one of the best tools available. For learning pop songs by rote, RockSmith is way more effective (and entertaining), but for actual scales and drills, Songs2See leads the way. Pro: Very simple interface. Con: Very simple interface. There doesn't seem to be any mechanisim for theory instruction beyond drills.
Luego de mucho buscar, gracias a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOq2C6sn_Ls puedo decir que para agregar música se necesita el editor que cuesta mas caro que el mismo juego, unos 9.500$ CLP(en USD son 13 dolares). PD: el editor diria que es indispensable para ir mejorando, si hubiese sabido esto de antemano quizas ni compraba el juego, tendre que si o si comprar el editor para que me sea de utilidad. Quizas es mejor instalar en el celular songsterr o por buestacks en el pc, es una aplicacion gratis,etc... sobre todo para las personas de habla hispana, porque este tipo de aplicaciones ni siquiera se esfuerzan en nuestro idioma, en cambio estas otras aplicaciones si, saludos cordiales.
im currently learning to play the violin. i just used an electric tuner to make sure my violin was in tune then went to test this game with the bad reviews in mind thinking i would likely be refunding this but i was pleasently supprized. it recognisis the notes perficly and will be lots of fun for me once i get better. i am using a razer headset that has very clear sound i am also wearing it while im playing and had adjusted it so the mic is above one of the f holes on my violin. for me the game works great to those having troubles with it i sugjest investing in a higher quality mic or getting a clipon mic for your respective instrument 5/5 would recommend
This product doesn't really have a niche. Too bare bones/no music library for folks just learning. If you can use the editor well enough to import a guitarpro file, you probably don't need this software, they never completed or got the autotranscribe working. Really dissapointed that it was left as the interesting tech demo that got greenlit. But hey the devs have taken that money and moved onto a new tech demo but now for tablets and mobile phones. Moral of the story: Never buy project greenlight or EA shovelware.
Very neat software that helps with learning the instrument without or with little help from teachers. It works pretty much like karaoke for instruments and provides visual information on fingering for each note as you play the piece. I would highly recommend using this to help develop muscle memory for fingering, learn how to read music sheets and assist with complicated pieces. The game requires additional purchase of their software tool that will allow using any midi, musicxml and other formats to import any music sheet into the game.
The game, in spite of its simplicity, is funny. The low number of available music is the only issue.
I use Songs2See as a tool for my "learning to sing" project. The visual feedback has proven to be invaluable to practice how to sing in tune. Having this has helped me more in 1 month then 2 years of singing classes in my adolescense. Together with the editor this is a very powerful package. The editor allows to import and edit midi files. And maybe even more important you can import songs from mp3 files, the editor will extract the notes from it, it can also be edited. The whole project can than be exported for the game. Some caveats: Only a few of the included songs are useful for vocal training. I don't quite understand why there are not more prepared songs after all this time. Either by community or by the developers. Is it a licensing problem? i would gladly pay a couple bucks for each song. The problem is, that importing a song and "cleaning" it for the game is quite cumbersome. But so far i couldnt find a collection anywhere.
This Game could be one of my best decision to buy yet.
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