deCoda

Learn Any Song with deCoda, the Song Deconstruction Tool

Learn and Analyze Any Song

Import an audio file and deCoda will tell you the key, the tempo and chords as well as identifying verse, chorus and other sections of the track.

Dive deeper with deCoda’s easy-to-use tools to help you really perfect playing a song. Bring the tempo down to hear nifty musicianship or change the key of the song to find one that’s more suited to your playing or singing style.

An intuitive Focus EQ helps you identify parts of the song that you want to filter out or hear isolated.

deCoda was inspired and informed by professionals in the music and recording industry to help you learn songs faster and easier than ever.

Created by zplane, deCoda is powered by the same technologies that are used by leading music-makers and producers all over the world.

zplane technology is included in many leading DAWs and can be heard on countless chart-topping hits.

Musical Navigation

deCoda's knowledge of a song's beat, tempo and structure let you navigate in musical terms rather than in samples or seconds. Explore the song in parts, bars or beats just with a keyboard hit or touch screen swipe. Automatically have a section loop and expand these loops just as quickly. Concentrate on your instrument, not the navigation.

Chord & Structure Recognition

deCoda decodes your song's musical data such as beat, tempo, key, chords and song structure. Using AI, deCoda makes educated guesses for each providing a good starting point for your edits. In some cases, you won't need to make any edits!

Piano Roll With Spectral View

The Piano Roll shows the melodic content of your song and lets you pick the notes that you can use for transcription. Results can be played back and exported as MIDI to your DAW or notation software.

Focus

Focus mode lets you highlight the instrument in the stereo mix that you want to hear. And, when you're done figuring out the part then switch to inverted Focus mode to remove the instrument and practice with the backing track.

Change Tempo, Pitch or Both!

zplane's elastique Pro is one of the best and the most used time-stretching algorithms in the world. And of course, it's also inside deCoda. You can slow things down or speed them up and change the key to make it fit your instrument or voice. deCoda also detects the tuning frequency of the song and matches it automatically to your preferred tuning frequency - no manual setup needed.

Metronome

Need a metronome for practice? If you want deCoda can add a metronome, clicking in 4th, 8th or 16th beats - always in sync with your song. It can also add a 1 or 2 bar count-in and even identify a potential upbeat, so you will never miss the first note again.

Internal Library

Everything you drop into deCoda will be kept safe in the internal library. No more hassle figuring out where to save a project or finding the corresponding audio file. Just type the song's name into the search bar, and in no time you're where you left off last time.

Sharing

Need to share a project with a bandmate, producer, friend or a student? No problem, just export the project, and all including the audio will be one easily shareable file. Also, you can export the slowed version of the loop you're working on to put it on any playback device. And just send the notes you've figured out to a MIDI file or directly to any notation software of your choice.

Light / Dark Theme

Wherever you're using deCoda, zplane has the theme to suit. Sitting in a cafe doing your transcriptions, the light theme will give you the necessary contrast. While the dark theme will reduce eye strain when practising in the studio, basement or figuring out a song at night.

Features

• Find Key, tempo and chords with the help of advanced algorithms
• Learn to play songs in parts with flexible looping options
• Automatic song structure detection helps you find intro, verse, chorus etc.
• Transpose parts or the entire track to a key that suits you better
• Change tempo without changing the pitch
• Use the Focus EQ to isolate a certain instrument
• View the parts of the song on a piano roll display
• Export MIDI parts that you have traced from the audio.
• Audio formats - wav, aiff, mp3, wma, flac, ogg
• Native compatibility with Apple M1 processors

System Requirements

Mac

• macOS 10.15 Catalina - macOS 12 Monterey (Intel & M1 Apple Silicon supported) (64-bit only)
• Minimum System CPU - 2 GHz
• Minimum Screen Resolution - 1366 x 768

Windows

• Windows 10 - Windows 11 (64-bit only)
• Minimum System CPU - 2 GHz
• Minimum Screen Resolution - 1366 x 768

Please Note: This is a Standalone Application and not a VST / AU / AAX instrument.