Band in a box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XZAdEV54w

Band in a box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XZAdEV54w

Music Term Reference Sites

Here are some sites explaining the kind of music terminology we'll be using if you all want a refresher/want to learn something:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols (use this is a glossary, there's a lot more here than we'll need)

http://datadragon.com/education/reading/

http://www.musicawareness.com/basics.html (a little more advanced theory)

http://www.wikihow.com/Read-Music (this has a bit more information than you may need and is kind of wordy, but a good all around explanation on how music is put together, some of this will be real important when we start to program how to turn a visualization into sheet music)

8bit composing website

beepbox.co

I like the easy visual layout, and how you can choose the scale you want to use, which forces you to sound good. It also has the set rhythm which you can't really stray from.

Songsmith..

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

Songsmith

exactly what we;re doing but oh so horrible

Slightly off topic but here's an amazing audio editing software.

Audio Tools for turning voice input into sheet music

I'm thinking Logic is the best software out there for musicians who want to record actual notes and turn them into sheet music, though it's accuracy isn't always great.  Here's an idealized usage of it:

For this one, he does an indepth tutorial of what I was trying to do, check it at 5:30:

Sibelius is a good example at looking at how to deal with rhythm input without any backing track.. flexitime tries to guess your tempo.. or if you try to play with sibelius's metronome, you have to preset what kind of notes you want it to put in so that it's more accurate...  (note: it's using MIDI so you don't need to worry about pitch detection) start watching at about 1 minute, but he actually inputs notes at 3:25 or so (to a click):

So how to input audio information to sibelius with pitch you ask?  Audio Score Ultimate 7 is the plug in you need to buy: http://www.sibelius.com/products/audioscore/ultimate.html

http://www.neuratron.com/audioscore2.htm

Sibelius's competitor, Finale, only allows mic input from woodwind or brass instruments (which is definitely easier to figure out than voice)