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Partitur, and the tools you may know.
Every one of these is good at something. Here is what each says it does, side by side, read from its own pages, with the sources, so you can choose for your own music and not for ours.
- Partitur andChordifyAn online chord service with a very large catalogue: pick a song and play along with its chords, on the web or in the apps.
- Partitur andMoisesAn AI music app best known for separating a song into stems, with chords, key, speed and lyrics alongside.
- Partitur andCapoA Mac and iOS app for learning songs by ear: detected chords and beats you can edit, slowed-down playback, and a spectrogram for picking out notes.
- Partitur andTranscribe!The long-standing transcriber's workbench: slow down without changing pitch, mark sections and beats by hand, look at the spectrum.
| What | Partitur | Chordify | Moises | Capo | Transcribe! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux (desktop) | Web, iOS, Android | Web, desktop, iPhone and iPad, Android | macOS, iPhone, iPad | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Costs | Free and open source (GPL-3.0). Heavier analysis runs on your computer or on a GPU computer of yours, free. | Free tier, and a Premium subscription (App Store listing in Spain: €6.00–€10.49 a month or €34.99–€48.00 a year, by region and offer) | Free tier with a limited number of uploads a month; Premium and Pro subscriptions (prices shown after signing in) | Free Edition; subscriptions Capo Pro (Mac $39.99 a year, iPhone and iPad $19.99 a year) and Capo Platinum ($49.99 a year); Capo Pro 4 for Mac $99 once, from select retailers | $39 once for a single copy (less per copy for more), after a 30-day evaluation |
| Where the audio is analysed | On your computer. Audio leaves it only if you send a song to a rig you added. | Chordify's service: songs are analysed online and shared through its catalogue | Not stated on the pages read | Not stated on the pages read | On your computer |
| Songs from | Your own audio files (any common format) | A catalogue of over 36 million songs; your own files with Premium | Your own files and links | Your own files | Your own audio and video files |
| Chords | Yes, with roman numerals and harmonic function; Nashville numbers | Yes: chords and animated diagrams for guitar, piano and ukulele | Chord Finder, synced to the music; Easy, Medium and Advanced voicings. Free: the first minute of each song | Yes: 168 chords including sevenths, suspended, augmented and inversions; editable | Chord guessing |
| Key | Yes, with key changes | Transpose with Premium; a key display isn't described on the pages read | Key Detector | Tempo and key control | Not described on the pages read |
| Beats and bars | Beats, downbeats, bars and tempo map | Not described on the pages read | Not described on the pages read | Beat mapping | Markers for measures and beats, placed by you |
| Sections | Yes (intro, verse, chorus…), named and lettered | Not described on the pages read | Chord sheets organised by song section | Sections you add | Markers for sections, named by you |
| Practice speed and loops | Practice speed without changing pitch; loops of a section or any span | Tempo change and looping with Premium | Speed changer | Speed and pitch, loop regions | From a twentieth to double speed without changing pitch; stored loops |
| Transpose and capo | Transpose and capo, with the easiest capo suggested | Transpose and capo with Premium | Pitch changer (chords follow), Capo Mode | Key control | Pitch in cents, or up to three octaves |
| Score and exports | Engraved score; MusicXML, MIDI and ChordPro export; import a written score and align it | Chord MIDI and PDF chord sheets with Premium | Chord sheet export with key, tempo and time signature | Lead sheets and MIDI export of notes and chords (Mac) | Note guessing shown as a piano roll; spectrum |
| Stems | With a GPU run (BS-RoFormer, HTDemucs) | Not offered on the pages read | Yes: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, keys and more | Not described on the pages read | Not offered (EQ filtering) |
| Lyrics | With a GPU run (word timing) | Not described on the pages read | Lyric transcription | Not described on the pages read | Not offered |
| On stage | Stage mode, setlists, lyrics prompter, band room on phones, hands-free page turns, pedals | Setlists with Premium | Not described on the pages read | MIDI remote commands (paid) | Pedal support |
| In the DAW | CLAP and VST3 plugin following the DAW's playhead; Ableton Link, MIDI clock | Not offered on the pages read | Not described on the pages read | MIDI export (Mac) | Not described on the pages read |
| DJ software | Cues with chords for rekordbox and Serato; Traktor export | Not offered on the pages read | Not described on the pages read | Not described on the pages read | Not offered |
Read from each tool's own pages on . “Not described on the pages read” means just that: the tool may do it, its pages we read don't say. Products change; the sources are linked.
What makes Partitur different
- It runs on your computer. The analysis that every song gets happens there; audio leaves only if you send it to a GPU.
- One score for everything. Beats, bars, chords, key, sections and loudness on one timeline you play, loop and engrave.
- It goes on stage. Stage mode, setlists, the band room on everyone's phones, pedals, hands-free page turns.
- It meets your other tools. A DAW plugin, Ableton Link, MIDI clock, rekordbox, Serato and Traktor.
- It is free and open source. GPL-3.0: read it, build it, change it.
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