I also think that the future will also have more music being released with full multitracks available to the public as part of its release - but that's another discussion. We'll have software that will be able to essentially automate the breakdown of parts/instruments and create full multitracks from 2 channel mixes. At some point in our future you will have a piece of software that will be able to essentially with near 100% accuracy - create full orchestral scores for all parts of songs - tabs - notation - whatever - how many years for that? 10? 15? The cool thing about all this stuff - All of it - is that it's only going to keep getting better. I'd encourage you guys to try this just to see what it seems capable of doing. Second - as a test I loaded up an MP3 of Led Zep "Ramble On" - noted for multiple guitar parts - all I can say is that I was very pleased at how I could separate these various parts (if you are not familiar with the multiple guitar parts on this song this might be a revelation to you - there's some very subtle stuff in the mix).
Those of you having issues might be running into this. It defaulted to the wrong card/driver so I had to change that.
First thing to be careful of - what audio driver and device your computer is using. Anyway - marketing genius or not - I was impressed. Just grabbed the free trial after reading this thread (so thank you to perhaps the clever marketing genius who decided to open a thread on this?). I'd love to see what other transcribe users think? I'm transcribing and learning songs faster with RS, just because of it's chord feature and lay out and I think it sounds better. I think RS looks better, is laid out better and easier to use. One thing transcribe has is video, which I don't use much, but its nice to have. You can change the tempo and pitch and all that. They both slow things down and you can eq and pan things to hear solo's and loop parts you want to work on. For learning songs, that's a huge plus over transcribe, it's quick and easy. The only songs it has a had time with is riff based songs, but still guesses the root right. I'm finding it's 100% right for most songs. RS guesses the chords and displays them in open or power chord form and scrolls the chords as you play along. I've been using transcribe for years and I'm liking riffstation better. I hit "file" "open audio file" and grab the file I want out of the iTunes music folder and it opens everything I've tried. Not because it’ll fall out, but it’d be easy for someone to just snag the iPad during breaks. Note: it slides into the holder, so I’d be a cautious using it during gigs. So far I really like it, I'm having no problems using iTunes files. It’s a mic stand holder for your iPad 2, 3 or 4 in a fairly secure fashion. I've been using it for a week now on the free trial.