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Find out about the REVOLUTIONARY new software tool that can help you perfect your singing.Are you interested in knowing EXACTLY what pitch you are singing? To SEE your voice on the computer screen? To KNOW whether you are singing perfectly on pitch?![]() Sing & See shows you your pitch as you sing - detailing exactly how you achieve each note. If you answered "YES", then read on to discover the revolutionary new software that will help you improve your vocal skills and give you increased confidence in your growing abilities to sing on-tune.Why do you want to improve your singing skills? Is it because you like singing for pleasure? Perhaps you are a singing student and your teacher keeps commenting on your pitch. Or maybe you enjoy singing karaoke or playing Singstar with your friends and you'd like to learn to sing better so you can impress your friends! Or just not be embarrassed by when you sing off-key. Whatever your reasons for wanting to improve your singing, our revolutionary singing software Sing & See can help you to improve your vocal skills and get closer to achieving your goals as a singer. We've called our software "Sing & See", because that is how it works - you SING - and you SEE YOUR VOICE on the computer screen! The software was developed by a team of singing teachers and computer experts at the University of Sydney in Australia, who designed it to help singing teachers give more precise feedback to their students, and for those students to get a better understanding of what their voices were doing as they sang. The teachers who were taking part in our research studies were so impressed by what the software could do for their students that they didn't want to give it back at the end of the study! So we decided to make the software available to teachers and singers everywhere. We now sell the software to singing teachers around the world to use in their teaching in schools, universities, and private studios. Now you can obtain the same benefits of real-time visual feedback to help you as you work towards perfecting your singing voice. Keep reading on to find out how Sing & See can help YOU to achieve your singing goals. Before reading on to hear what Sing & See can do to help you improve your singing skills, take a look at this video that shows how Sing & See is helping singing students Tarryn and Morgyn in their training.
Find out more about Sing & See - a computer tool that will help you learn to sing better!July 15th, 2008 Dear Singer, You're about to discover an amazing software tool that will help you achieve your singing goals faster than you've ever thought. Whether you want to be a professional singer, to perform better at the karaoke club, or just to enjoy yourself with more confidence in your singing. Whatever level you are at - a beginner, already taking lessons, or already a performing singer - then Sing & See can help you improve your vocal skills and reach the next level in your quest to sing better and better. Not only will Sing & See help you refine and improve your singing skills, it will give you increased confidence in your growing singing ability - as you sing, the software shows you what you are singing, giving you confirmation when you hit notes and intervals correctly, and allowing you to focus your practice when you are not quite there yet. What Sing & See can do for youSing & See enables you to actually see your voice on the computer screen - as you sing. The software contains sophisticated algorithms that analyse your voice to work out what pitch you're singing. It is then displayed on the computer screen in easy-to-understand displays.
Watch this short video to get an idea of how it works. What you will see as the singer makes a note is the blue line moving across the screen. That is his exact pitch, calculated to a fraction of a semitone - so you can see if he holds that note steady or not (in this case, not!). Look closely at the screen behind the blue line. The display shows musical notes, arranged as on a piano keyboard tilted vertically. You can see the black and white keys along the side of the screen - labelled with the note names to help remind you what they are. So you see your singing pitch on an easy-to-understand visual musical scale. Now, how about singing a simple interval. See how the software shows you not only whether you are hitting each note exactly, but how your voice makes the transition between notes. You can immediately see if you're tending to overshoot, for example, as you go from note to note - and then once you've spent some time practising and perfecting your technique you get confirmation that you're singing clean, accurate intervals.
As well as showing you a line of the exact pitch your voice traces over time, Sing & See helps you to visualise your singing in a musical context. It highlights each note you sing on a virtual piano keyboard at the top of the screen, and also on a musical staff displayed on the left side. So you get an immediate visual understanding of how each pitch in your vocal range relates to music both as it is written and as it is played on the keyboard. Not only do you SEE your sung notes, but the virtual keyboard in Sing & See can be played - either by clicking on the keys with your mouse or by keyboard shortcuts. So if you don't have a keyboard to help in your practising you can use the Sing & See keyboard to give you a pitch cue (even if you do, it's still very handy to be able to simply click on a key in Sing & See to hear the note, instead of having to reach over to your piano or keyboard). Who is William Thorpe and how did he develop Sing & See?
In doing this research I worked with many top singing teachers, including Janice Chapman, Jo Estill, Jean Callaghan, Pat Wilson, and others. This research was published in scientific and music education journals and conferences around the world (if you're interested in finding out more about this research, please contact me to ask about it - there is a link to the contact form at the bottom of this page). One of the research projects I led during this time at the University of Sydney was about finding out how visual feedback technology could be used to improve singing training. However, at that time there wasn't any software available that really gave good feedback about the singing voice, so we ended up writing their own software that would analyse the singing voice and display feedback in musically relevant ways about the pitch and timbre so that the singing student and teacher would be able to benefit from the information on the display. That software became Sing & See, and as I mentioned above, when the teachers in our research study kept asking if they could keep the software, I decided to make that happen. To cut a long story short, I set up Cantovation (canto is Latin for singing, and ovation means - well, hopefully you'll be getting standing ovations soon!) with a mission of "helping people sing better and have more fun in their singing, by creating innovative technology that lets people improve and enjoy their voices". I'm glad to say that it's very satisfying to be able to help others with their singing, and also to have improved my own singing skills in the process! I use the software both during my own practice sessions at home, and also occastionally with my singing teacher. Get Sing & See now and start improving your singing technique!If you've come to this page you probably already know how important it is to get good feedback about your voice and where you need to improve (and of course, where you're already sounding great!). If you have a teacher or vocal coach then you'll be getting regular feedback during your classes about notes and phrases you're not getting right, and suggestions for how to improve (and even that feedback - usually given verbally - is sometimes not quite precise enough if you're having trouble with some technical issue - which is why many teachers are starting to use Sing & See themselves in their studios, so their students can get a clearer "picture" of how their voices are working). But when you're practising at home - or even more critically, if you don't currently have a teacher or coach to tell you what you need to improve in your voice - you're basically on your own when it comes to checking whether you're making notes cleanly and accurately. How much better could you sing? How much more accurate could you hit each note? How much cleaner could those note transitions be? How much more focussed could your practising be? How much more confident could you be in your singing? If you could SEE your voice - and know exactly whether it is sung well - on or off the note, clean or scooped, clear, steady, rough, good vibrato, supported or sagging? These are some of the many reasons that singers (and singing teachers) all around the world are using Sing & See in their training. You can read some of their feedback to us on this page. You now have the opportunity to join these singers and start to SEE real progress in your singing - progress towards achieving your goals as a better and more confident singer. Read on to find out how to order and start using Sing & See on your own computer immediately. Start using Sing & See in the next 5 minutes!As soon as you order Sing & See through our online order system, you are given a link to download the software and a unique private Product Key that will let you install it onto your computer. So you can start to use it straight away. Even if you have never downloaded software, the process is extremely easy and quick. And safe - read below about what we have done to make this as risk-free as possible. You can also choose to have a CD-ROM containing the software shipped to your address in addition to the immediate download. The CD-ROM and download versions are identical. Risk-free orderWe use Paypal to process all payments and are a Paypal Verified business. Paypal securely handles all your credit card or bank account details (they have a choice of different methods for payment). Once your payment is complete they notify us and we then finalise your order. Paypal are probably the largest online payments company (they are part of eBay) and offer extremely high security including a policy of "100% protection" against fraud. Because we want to be absolutely sure that you are happy with Sing & See, we give our customers a 30 day 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE. If you decide, anytime in the first 30 days, that Sing & See actually isn't what you want, we will happily refund 100% of your purchase price. We're very happy to make this guarantee because we're confident that you will find it useful in helping with your singing progress. And if you're not satisfied that the software is helping you, then we want to hear about it so that we can work to improve the software for other people. We understand the dangers of buying on the internet and want you to feel absolutely comfortable with ordering from us. That is why - in addition to the protection you receive through Paypal - we have now decided to become a member of RatePoint, the premier provider of online business reputation services. You can click on the RatePoint seal to check our business reputation, and can leave feedback about our service on the RatePoint website. So you can have full confidence that we are an honest business with a good reputation to protect. As soon as we receive confirmation from Paypal that your payment has been processed (this usually takes only a few seconds, unless you choose to pay by electronic check in which case it can take a few days for the payment to clear) our server automatically generates a unique Product Key and emails it to you together with the download link and detailed instructions for installing the software on your PC. Paypal also sends you an email confirming your order, so you have an independent record of your payment, and if you are dissatisfied you can even ask them to intervene. IMPORTANT: Even if you can't purchase today - for whatever reason - make sure that you sign up for our newsletter. We occasionally run special promotions for Sing & See which are publicised through our private newsletter.
I look forward to getting a letter from you, telling me about your experiences with Sing & See and about your latest singing success story! I love to hear from people about how they are finding new confidence in their singing skills and the success that is bringing them - after all, the reason we created this software in the first place was to help people sing better - and have more fun in their singing! All the best for your singing success!
William Thorpe P.S. Remember, your order is 100% risk-free, with protection given by Paypal and our own 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you prefer to order by telephone or Purchase Order, contact us directly or if you are in North America call our distributor A-Prompt Corporation Free InformationSign up for our free information newsletter to keep up to date with news about Sing & See and the latest advances in technology for singing training. P.P.S. If you don't order right now for whatever reason, make sure that you sign up for our informational newsletter so that when you are ready to take this opportunity, you don't forget where to find it again! System Requirements:
Attention MAC USers!!!
Sing & See is now available for the Mac! Please click here for more details Professional Version of Sing & SeeNote: We only recommend this version for singers who are advanced and either have a teacher or have already had extensive training in how the voice works. Otherwise you're not going to get the full benefit and you might as well get the cheaper Student version. You can always upgrade later on when you're really ready for it. |
Here's what a few of our customers are saying about Sing & See:
"Just a quick note to let you know I absolutely love the Sing & See program. It has already helped me to improve singing my solfege on pitch. Of course, because I don’t want to stop practicing with it, I’m not doing any of my music theory... " -- Stephanie, NJ
"This is so cool! Thanks! " -- Cate, NZ
“I sing, and see what it looks like, and then I remember the way it was sung.” -- Student, research study
“it clearly explains things I have been telling my students to do … they have confidence in me when they are starting out … because it’s all objective—like the computer can’t lie.” -- Teacher, research study
“It was very useful for reinforcing what I knew but it did it so dramatically. … It reinforced the things that you knew but it did it so instantly that I think it was like somebody prodding you when you make a mistake.” -- Student, research study Free InformationSign up for our free information newsletter to keep up to date with news about Sing & See and the latest advances in technology for singing training.
"I just purchased your SW tonight, as I am a bad singer - apparently my voice is ok, but I sing the wrong notes, and I am hoping it will help me. From first impressions, I think it will, but it also very clearly shows me that I have a lot of work to do! Anyway, very impressed with the SW so far" -- Simon, Germany
“it helped reinforce things I knew and because I am coming to singing older and because I am trying to change how to do something, that is a lot harder than changing something intellectually because you are trying to change the body; so I think it sharpened my understanding of where I was losing those things that I knew” -- Student, research study
“Thanks so much for the new Sing and See version 1.2.8 which shows pitch much more precisely than before. It can "hear" through ambient noises -- in fact, now the program can even find a voice amid musical background, as long as the vocal is sufficiently louder. This makes it fun for karaoke wannabees like me.” -- Bob, NJ
"I use a lot of technology in my studio. This program is a nice addition to the body of software that provides new and exciting tools to help me continue to grow as a voice teacher and singer." -- Larry, WA
"I enjoy using your product.. My main purpose for purchasing "Sing & See" was to help me determine what key my vocal range would fall in, when singing various songs. My genre's are primarily bluegrass, folk, and 50's country & western. On a regular basis, I participate in bluegrass jam sessions where I play banjo & dobro, and have other musicians play backup when I opt to sing. I am sure that you have more sophisticated artists who also find your product useful. " -- John, TX
"I've tried what you suggested and it works perfectly fine. I was glad to know that I don't need to buy or try more stuff. It's working great thanks to you and all your help. Thank you very much for everything, I will recommend Sing & See to other singer friends." -- Pablo, CA
"This is a very useful product. My son has been using it to help with pitching when playing his trombone. Like a voice, it is very easy to wander around off pitch" - Rob, CT
"Sing & See is a wonderful piece of S/W that does many more things beyond my immediate goal of pitch tracking. The pitch tracking user-interface is esthetically pleasing and mostly intuitive in operation. ... The functional keyboard is a big plus as a convenient reference. " -- Anne, CA
"I have downloaded Sing and See and am impressed at how it can show you the actual notes you are singing." -- Ted, VA
"I think it is a great tool to help me stay on pitch and to build resonance." -- Kathie, AZ
I like the fact that it does not talk down to the user at the juvenile level as some other commercial softwares do. -- Anne, CA
" I don’t see why every singer doesn’t use this tool. As a singer, you hear (or should hear) the music and pitches in your head as you vocalize a song. And this comes from remembering the music and the pitches. If you’re singing off pitch, you’re remembering, for recall, off pitch notes. I think any singer who is serious about their craft should definitely use this tool as part of their daily exercises to improve their pitch accuracy, and to help them better distinguish, pitch wise, between a sharp, flat and natural note. " -- Stephanie, NJ
"It certainly shows my pitch is a bit rusty since I stopped singing seriously. Maybe it always was! :) " --Tom, NZ
"As a retired technical guru, I did conduct some bench testing of frequency response and bandwidth across select octaves of chromatic scales, and was amazed as to accuracy of these results. I have found that "sing & see" provides many characteristics as an instrumental tuner, with great accuracy. " -- John, TX
"I just ordered your software and absolutely love it! " -- Kris, CO
"I love the sing & see software. I discovered that my computer can act as a musical keyboard! How cool is that!" -- Kathryn, CA |
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