It's not an LLM, it's a custom thing we built. Here's a comprehensive list of support for various notation glyphs: https://www.soundslice.com/help/en/creating/pdf-import/294/s...

https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/

So as you play the audio (with slowdown, looping, etc.), you can immediately write down what you figured out, and that written notation stays synced with the original recording. This workflow for transcription is fantastic, because otherwise you're juggling multiple apps (audio playback/slowdown, plus notation software).

Since you asked about MuseScore: MuseScore is purely scoring software, without the ability to sync with real audio. You can also use Soundslice as a pure sheet music editor; the main difference is it's web-based as opposed to being a desktop app like MuseScore. Soundslice also has the philosophy that the music might always be displayed on different devices, so it's engraved on the fly depending on your screen dimensions. (MuseScore sort of assumes the end result will be a fixed-dimension such as paper.)

Kudos from one of the Soundslice guys — we've been making web-based tab and sheet music stuff since 2012. :)

Programmers are worse off for his retirement, but (given his career change) Chicago-area high school kids are in for a real treat.

An example is how Paul McCartney’s original title for “Yesterday” was “Scrambled Eggs,” since those words fit naturally over the start of the melody.

I think it gets a bad rap because you need to write your code in a certain way to avoid the optimizations breaking things. But if you're a disciplined developer, you'll reap some large benefits.

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude or unhelpful, but that's not a question I can provide a meaningful answer to. There have been dozens, probably hundreds, of difficult technical challenges in building Soundslice.

It combines audio playback directly with a tab editor, so that you can immediately write down what you’ve figured out and your transcription stays in sync with the original audio. This makes transcribing incredibly fast and (importantly) accurate.

It’s got audio slowdown, precise looping, “synth overlay” (playback of the transcription and original audio at the same time, to spot errors), auto stem separation and a full-featured tab/notation editor with support for hundreds of notations.

When you’re done, you get a very useful artifact: a synced transcription, effectively a bespoke practice environment for that piece of music.

Over the years, Soundslice has expanded into a lot more than a pure transcription tool, but lots of people still use it for its original intended purpose. (It supports any instrument that uses western music notation, not just guitar.) If you’re at all interested in transcribing music, give it a shot.

Soundslice is oriented around sheet music that's synced with audio. So while we have a few audio-processing features (basic cropping, slowdown and fine-grained pitch correction), that stuff is all secondary to the notation aspect.

I had a chuckle pondering whether you A/B tested "really freaking cool-looking" versus "really cool-looking" in the prompt. What a weird world we live in! :-)

For much better results, use a custom trained model like the one at Soundslice: https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/