From c_schonberger@yahoo.com Thu Jan 07 07:49:54 2010
Subject:Re: Practice Software

The best way should always be a professional production software platform. For Windows I recommend Sonar or Cubase. The recent versions are of top professional quality and include excellent time stretch (= slowing down the music without affecting pitch) and EQ/filtering. There are also pitch analyzing software applications which work quite well for, say, piano and not-too-dense arrangements (not sure about Hammonds since some harmonics can be wrongly interpreted like pitches by the software (it is a matter of drawbar registration I guess). These software applications age great to analyze keyboard and guitar voicings. They run like vst plugins. Sorry, I forgot the name, but someone in this group might remember.
 
The above mentioned professional platforms also allow for you to record MIDI data in perfect sync with the source audio track - so if you are unable to catch certain things by ear, you can tweak the MIDI data in non-real time until it matchs the original, then the data tells you what you need to play.
 
Hope this helps,
Christian



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