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Re: Show HN: MeloCraft – Pitch detection in real-time

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Hello, I made this tool when I started learning the violin and wanted to correct my pitch despite not having a musical ear. I figured it might be useful to other people (:

So, has it helped you "tune" your ear? i.e., are you able to correct your pitch without the tool now that you've spent time practicing with it? I've often wondered about that. I learned guitar at such a young age, that I don't have a good recollection of the process of learning to have a reasonably good ear, or if it was something I already had and had to just learn to listen to. As an adult, I've often gone years wi…

Hard to say, I feel it helped a little, as in, when I'm playing with my teacher (without MeloCraft), I more often get the feeling « oh, that doesn't quite sound right, I should move my fingers a little bit ». But that's N=1 and I didn't do any meaningful before/after tests.

That said, even if the tool doesn't help for the musical earing directly, it can still help to correct the position of your fingers, and that's very important for muscle memory. So instead of training for hours on the wrong finger position because I don't have a musical ear, I can correct myself and properly train my muscle memory correctly.

Well, you're very lucky to have a relative pitch, I think you can still train for it as an adult, but it may require more time and still might not be possible for everyone. Don't take my word for it thought, I don't recall any solid research on the subject.

Re: Show HN: MeloCraft – Pitch detection in real-time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, has it helped you "tune" your ear? i.e., are you able to correct your pitch without the tool now that you've spent time practicing with it? I've often wondered about that. I learned guitar at such a young age, that I don't have a good recollection of the process of learning to have a reasonably good ear, or if it was something I already had and had to just learn to listen to. As an adult, I've often gone years wi…

Hard to say, I feel it helped a little, as in, when I'm playing with my teacher (without MeloCraft), I more often get the feeling « oh, that doesn't quite sound right, I should move my fingers a little bit ». But that's N=1 and I didn't do any meaningful before/after tests. That said, even if the tool doesn't help for the musical earing directly, it can still help to correct the position of your fingers, and that's v…

Relative pitch is definitely learnable as an adult. So-called perfect pitch is the ability that has been thought to be something you're born with, or not, but more recent research indicates that kids can have it "turned on", or at least, kids can develop relative pitch that is good enough to be indistinguishable from perfect pitch, for all intents and purposes (the listener just has to refresh their pitch memory with a reference pitch now and then...maybe once a day).

Re: Show HN: MeloCraft – Pitch detection in real-time

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Crashes instantly on start (on Windows): Fault Module Name: Qt5Gui.dll Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00044856

That's odd, can I ask what version of Windows you're running? How much RAM you got? I only tested it on Win7 and had a friend test it on Win8 and Win10.

Windows 8.1, 16GB RAM
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