Ask HN: Transcribe bass guitar parts from stems?

7 points

4 years ago

I play in a rock band, and people often ask for bass tabs to my parts. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good way of auto generating notes or tabs from isolated bass guitar tracks. I tried some tools, but the results were really bad.(https://rickyhan.com/jekyll/update/2020/05/23/algorithm-for-fretboard-arrangement.html)

You would think since bass guitar plays one note at a time, it would be reasonably easy to transcribe the notes, but I haven't been able to find anything that does the job.

Here is an example of bass stem I'm trying to auto transcribe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1__20KijfHcg56A-HCtlehL_exur9AL0t/view?usp=sharing

and here is the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cRlhqaV1k

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