Tony: a tool for melody transcription

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h1. Tony Introduction

Tony is a program for computer-aided melody annotation. It has a graphical interface based on the  "SV libraries":/projects/sv and uses the "pYIN":/projects/pyin Vamp plugin to extract pitch track and notes from monophonic audio.

h2. Getting Started

h3. Installation

We provide ready-to-use software builds for Windows and Mac OSX on the "Downloads page":/projects/tony/files. On Windows you can simply download and execute the installer (.msi), and on OSX you download the disk image (.dmg), mount it and drag "Tony" into your Applications folder.

For Linux users with ample compilation experience we also provide the source code, available on the "Downloads page":/projects/tony/files.

h3. User Interface

Below is an annotated screen shot of the Tony user interface. We will refer to these elements in the paragraphs below.

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h3. Tutorial 1: Annotating Notes from an Audio File

This mini-tutorial walks you through the complete process of using Tony to load an audio file, annotate the notes in it and export the notes to a .csv (comma-separated values) file.

# Start the _Tony_ program by double-clicking (or whatever you routinely do to open programs).

# Open an audio file of your choice. Mind that _Tony_ only deals with single melodies *without* accompaniment, so choose a little bit of accompanied solo singing or the like.

# Upon opening of the file, _Tony_ will automatically analyse the file using "pYin":/projects/pyin pitch and note extraction, and pitches and notes should appear. _If no pitch track and notes occur, please see Analysis Settings and Visualisation, below._

# Get comfortable with the _Tony_ user interface. Here are a few suggestions:

#* use the 

h2. Tony How-To

h3. Visualisation

h3. Sonification

h2. Nerdy matters

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