GREAT, GOOD, and Ehhhh..

I was introduced to this by a friend and I am really enjoying using it.

I do think its excellent as a slow-downer, and tempo finder…. great for learning songs, just the way you might in Transcribe, etc. but better and faster in many ways for me.

Im not sure the chord recognition and tablature editor are ready for prime time yet.
There are features that maybe I just dont get… some people work differently than I do so maybe they are handy for them.

That said, the GUI is fast, intuitive and it sounds better than any program Ive heard while playing back really slow speed! This makes it much easier to pick stuff apart while learning fast runs, etc…

THE GREAT!:

Sound quality is really good at slow speeds… much better than others… this makes hearing stuff A LOT easier when slowing things down.

The EQ and Voice Reduction work nicely in semi-isolating and pin-pointing parts youre trying to hear.

Tempo Recognition is really good… at first I didnt think that would matter to me but then realized how nice it is to know the exact tempo… then when charting out stuff… its right there keeping track of measures and beats for me! NICE!

Multiple Regions!!!! YAY I was a bit confused at first but totally get it now… you can drag over (and edit by dragging) Multiple regions…. not such a big deal when going through a song from the top and charting out but…. when I want to go back and practice a certain riff etc… its right there selected when I open the file back up … I dont need to spend time finding the spot i need to run.. looping it etc.. In fact… setting up these regions reminds me of stuff I need to look at before a gig! GREAT!

THE GOOD:
The overall GUI is nice, quick access to helpful things like EQ, MONO, Voice Reduction… these are placed right on front to adjust quickly… accessing them is instant and doesnt freak out playback like some others…

Commands are simple and easily learned…. once I used it for a few minutes I was blazing through sections, etc… easy to turn on/off looping etc.

THE NOT SO GOOD:
As mentioned in other reviews here, the chord recognition is not working that great.
I dont think this should even be a feature of this program.
Even if you were going to play the dumbed down cowboy chord version of a song, its just not recognizing the chords accurately enough to be useful.
That said, I dont need this feature, Im fine figuring out the chords.
I WISH you could turn off the chord view in fact… it becomes distracting while Im writing out my own chart….

You also cant print anything so… even if you spent time editing the TAB or chord diagrams… you cant get it out of he program… so sort of useless.

Also wish I could zoom the waveform vertically, Theres so much real estate used by the spectrogram, which… isnt useful to me.

OVERALL:

I will be using it lots… If you ignore certain things, Its simple, fast and to the point.

My inclination is that this program is trying too hard to be too many things.
What it does well it does really nicely.
I think they may be spinning their wheels on some of the other aspects, or at least it needs to be another program altogether.

The stuff I dont need I ignore and it works great!

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