Learn to sing in tune
CANTA v1.11 - Freeware
To sing in tune is something one can learn. Canta is a software that helps you develop your vocal talents. It will give you singing lessons while you have fun singing your favorite songs.
How to sing better with Canta
The principle of Canta is simple and powerful: you choose a song to work and you load the corresponding MIDI file into Canta. Canta plays the music and shows the notes of the melody that you must sing.
When you sing, in real time, Canta analyses and measures the frequency of your voice. It shows you the pitch of the note that you are singing in the form of a curve on the screen. Your pitch curve is supperposed to the notes of the melody. You then see if you sing in tune, or if you are below or above the note you want to reach.
So you see how to sing to get the right pitch.
The repetition of theses voice lessons will allow your ear to distinguish properly the pitch of what you sing and you will learn to sing better, you will learn to sing in tune.
Example
The green rectangles are the notes of the melody as it should have been sung, and the red line is what was actually sung
To learn more about Canta and its use, you can browse its help files online by clicking here : Online help
Understanding the voice
On the pages below you will find some explanation of the voice and how Canta can help you to improve your singing.
Main functionnalities of Canta v1.11:
- free
- real-time analysis of the pitch of the voice
- graphical display of the pitch
- MIDI player and display of the melody on the same graph
- horizontal and vertical zoom
- display of the lyrics when they are included in the MIDI file (karaoke)
- freeze mode to review the entire performance
- recording of the voice into a wav file
- display of the height of the voice in Hertz and in notes (A, B, C, ...)
- microphone level control
- display of the low part of the voice spectrum
- offset of the melody and accompaniment by semitones
- offset of the display by full octave of the melody
- preview of the melody notes to come
- several skins are provided with Canta
- possibility to change the melody instrument of the MIDI files
- selection of the start and end mesure
- looping between the start and end mesure
- automatic zoom and scroll to see all the notes on the screen
- sound level controls for the melody and the accompaniment
Screen capture:
Clic on the following links to view the other skins: Fruity, Kontakt, Lounge et Massive.
Minimal configuration required:
- Processor: Pentium III or AMD 800 MHz
- RAM : 384 Mo RAM
- Operating system: Windows XP Home
- Sound card
- Display 800x600
- Microphone
Safe to install
The following sites have tested Canta and can assure you that it does not contain any viruses, adware, spyware, backdoors or trojans:
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To contact us
If you have any question or suggestion, please send a mail at this address:
The author
The creator of Canta is not a professional developer, just a lover of beautiful voice. He works in the field of therapeutic hypnosis. You can find more information about his professional sites (in French):
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