Singing Coach

by Carry-A-Tune Technologies

Product Features

• Pitch Tracking Line displays the pitch of your voice as you sing
• 20 lesson tutorial teaches you how to sing and use the Singing Coach
• Custom vocal tools adjust all songs to your specific vocal range
• Edit any song within the software or compose your own songs
• Graphic note display and sheet music views

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006NAB8W
• Item model number: CAT220
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,367 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Carry-a-Tune SingingCoach is the fun way for everybody to sing better. As your pitch improves, your confidence will build. As your confidence builds, you'll sing better and have more fun!

Carry-a-Tune's animated characters will make learning to use the software and learning to sing easy and fun.

Features:

• Pitch tracking line: Carry-a-Tune's unique system of displaying the pitch of your voice as you sing
• 20-lesson tutorial: learn how to sing and how to use Carry-a-Tune
• Custom vocal range: Carry-a-Tune can automatically adjust all songs to your specific vocal range
• Compose mode: edit any song within Carry-a-Tune or compose your own songs
• Sheet music view: in addition to Carry-a-Tune's graphic note display, all songs can be viewed as they would appear in sheet music

Highlights:

• Learn to sing with the help of patented real-time pitch recognition technology
• Prepare for singing with proper breathing and posture
• Learn the differences between jazz, blues, classical, opera, and other styles
• See your performance and measure it on-screen
• Imports MIDI's
• Microphone headset included

Product Description

Learn to sing with the help of a patented real-time pitch recognition technology. Twenty lesson tutorial. See your voice on screen. Microphone headset included.System Requirements:Pentium II 400 MHz 128 MB Memory Video card for 16-bit color CD-ROM 200 MB free disk space Display resolution 800x600Format: WIN MENT2000XP Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE UPC: 183561000013 Manufacturer No: CAT220

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for the beginner, but not much more., June 6, 2005

By 

Calista E. Tait (somerville, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singing Coach (CD-ROM)

This program has quirky characters that teach you the basics of singing, such as breathing, posture and warm ups. Being able to see what pitch you are hitting helps a lot to strengthen the beginning singer.

The reason I gave this only 3 stars, however, is that once you are done with the basics, the only thing that the program can give you is you pitch history while singing one of the songs. While this is a useful information, there isn't a wide enough varity in songs to make using this feature terribly fun and there aren't lessons to encourage you to work through the songs in a specific order.

I was also quite disappointed with their online song library. This version comes with 4 free songs to down load from their song library, and I only found two that I was even willing to sing and have a vague liking for. None of my favorite songs were there. The lists of songs were quite small. They also, beyond the 4 free songs, want to charge what I think is an outragous charge per song.

Get this if you are a rank beginner or need help with your pitch and are happy practicing on public domain folk songs. It's a fine piece of software if that's what you are looking for.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Impressed!, May 17, 2006

By 

Jessica M. Singh "the vindicator" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singing Coach (CD-ROM)

I had seen this product advertised on T.V. and was skeptical at first but intrigued as well. A year later, I decided that it was time to get some voice training.I've loved music all my life and have been singing all through it. Since I'm learning guitar, I figured now would be the time to step it up a notch. Unfortunely, I can't afford proper lessons so I guessed that this would be the next best thing, I didn't even know if I was a soprano, baritone, or anything. Singing Coach arrived yesterday and I've been playing with it ever since. I learned that I'm a tenor! It took a while to get the microphone settings correct, My voice wouldn't register at first and I thought that the product was faulty. If this happens to anyone else, try checking the settings for your computer's microphone, that was my problem.I love the pitch tracking! It helped me so much! You can see if your pitch is wrong and you can adjust yourself while you sing! There are tons of exercises too.You can go by note, or by scale. The songs that come with are old traditional songs like Twinkle, twinkle little star, home on the range,etc. I was kind of bummed by this at first but they definitely help with the training. The only bad thing is the selection of downloadable songs on their website.I was able to find two but other than that nothing I would want to sing. But that's me, you can check out what songs they carry on the carryatune.com website. Also after you use up your free downloads it is 3.95 per song.That's sure to add up if you get bored easily like me. All in all, a good product for the absolute beginner. It does seem like an experienced singer wouldn't get much out of it, except maybe as a supplement between classes or something like that.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun and Helpful Product, June 13, 2005

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M. Marshall - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singing Coach (CD-ROM)

I thought this was a really solid piece of software. It taught me alot of things that I needed to know about singing. I am not a professional and could not afford vocal lessons so this really was a HUGE help.

The ability to sing a wide range of songs made it even more useful. Being able to see my pitch helped teach me what types of songs are good for me to sing. From what I have seen so far the music library is growing every week with better and better songs. If they keep adding songs like this there really is no limit what I can do with the software.