Hey Kraig – there are aspects of each that are useful.
I like ASD because it’s on the phone so it’s portable, I don’t have to be in front of a computer in order to use it. Also, I just realized that you can access your photo library which is awesome like if there’s a YouTube video and I wanna learn some part of it I’ll just video it and then I can pull it into ASD. Also, because I have Apple Music, that’s a convenient feature as well.
An important feature of ASD is when you are moving the sliders you can drag down to have it become more granular or drag up to have it be a bigger movements.
And then Transcribe! is great because you can bring in YouTube videos. My workflow is I download the YouTube videos using a Mac application that I paid $20 for it called Airy which is made by Altima, and then from there I just drag the video into transcribe.
The way Carlos uses the software makes it seem a lot better than ASD, but in practice I haven’t really incorporated much of what he has taught me yet…
So yeah I like them both.
Also, I think I shared this one post with you?
The ear training exercises I described in there, and particularly the Ear Master software has been huge in helping me become faster at transcribing this to memory.
Hope this helps… I’m glad that you’re excited about learning by ear. It’s absolutely the best! It’s the way all of my musical heroes learned music.