How to convert music files/find them?

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How to convert music files/find them?

Hello Community,
I am a music writer. I write my music using grage band so that I can up load the music into Itines and listen to it, burn it to disks, share it, ect. Recently I have been getting requests for sheet music for my songs. WhatI have been doing is using garage band to look at the songs and to re-write them note by note by note on Finale Notepad. The issue is that I can not find some of my older garage band files. I do have the itunes files of them but I can not recreate the songs by ear. I was wondering if there was a way to recover old Garage band files or a way to convert Itunes music to a readable/sheetmusic format? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

iPod classic, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 8, 2014 12:04 PM

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léonie

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Feb 8, 2014 12:23 PM in response to Otterer

I was wondering if there was a way to recover old Garage band files or a way to convert Itunes music to a readable/sheetmusic format?

I assume, you have already searched all your backups for the missng GarageBand projects?

GarageBand cannot analyze audio files and transcribe them. You will need other tools,unfortunately are they more expensive than GarageBand.

Transcribe: This app can help you to transcribe the chords played at a given point of the audio track.
Logic: If your audio file uses a single instrument, can Logic display the notes in piano roll view.
Melodyne: Melodyne will also analyze a song and try to show the notation view of the song.

All results are far from a proper musical score, bt they can help you to create it.

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Feb 8, 2014 12:42 PM in response to léonie

Yeah I have tried a bunch of ways for searching for backups, but I had made them years ago, and they still can not be found :/

As far as using those programs,
they all seem quite fantastic but out of my budget. I will probably just slowly rescore them, but thank you very much for your input 🙂

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léonie

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Feb 8, 2014 1:07 PM in response to Otterer

I like particularly Melodyne, but it is luxury.

Have you tried the free Audacity? It could also help to transcribe the chords at least.

And I forgot to mention: In some way could the Guitar tuner help in GB, if you play your song from a different device - iPod, iPhone look at the Tuner. It will show you the dominant notes of the chords played.

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