Song surgeon is a grand slam. Simply wonderful. I use it every day to assist my Traditional Irish Fiddling. I can’t believe the increase level of sophistication from when I started with you guys when you first started

When I learn a new tune I listen to it on SS to understand the rhythm and cadence. Then I pull out my music and learning is much faster and more accurate. Then I do away with the music as every good Irish girl should do and just play along with SS.

The new Song Surgeon 3 is astounding.  This most productive application puts current ideas of learning to play the cello in a completely new light. SS# makes it easy to rip piano accompaniments from my CD recordings and adjust the tempo, without distortion, to my cello playing level as I progress. I strongly recommend it as a teaching adjunct, particularly for elderly beginners, where substantial, distortion free adjustments may be desired.

The level of tech support provided by the experts at Song Surgeon is first class. Thank you again for the splendid help to get it going on my machine.

Just got to thank you for  such a great Tool, I have been using Song Surgeon since the launch of Song Surgeon 1 and since the beginning it has been a fantastic piece of kit.

I have been using it for both my learning on Sax and Guitar as well as dissecting songs for my band when were playing covers and now with Song Surgeon 3 Pro it does much much more in an even better and easier layout, key change, tempo, cut, loop, paste, adjust EQ and save your work , you name it song surgeon does it. It is the complete toolkit for anyone no matter the instrument no matter your ability it will work for you in such an easy to use interface I've used it for guitar solos slowing them down changing Key to work out parts or intricate chords on Sax and brass parts and even on drum parts to dissect and analyze what is been played during solos or drum breaks truly fantastic  and lastly adjusting tempo and the key on songs to try out is a god send.

It has helped Me in particular to improve my playing and understanding music. It has helped my band to reproduce better more accurate cover versions of songs

And last but not least to James and all the support team keep up the good work you have a great product and a fantastic customer support

Many Thanks

I've been playing guitar for over 50 years. I'm not very good but I love the instrument. Over the years I've bought all kinds of " guitar made easy" books, tapes, VCR's and DVD's and found 90% of them to be useless. A year or so ago I ran across Song Surgeon on line. It sounded like a good idea to be able to slow down the tempo without changing the pitch, so I decided to give it a try. I like old rock n roll by Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly etc., but most of their music was too fast for me to figure out by just listening at regular speed. I was amazed at how it worked. With version 3 PRO you can literally pick songs apart and play them at whatever speed you need in order to learn the parts. I'm no guitar god, but I'm having a lot more fun and learning a lot more now that I have Song Surgeon.

I also want to mention the support you get. On 2 occasions I had some technical problems (which were totally on my end) and Jim Todd couldn't have been more helpful. He actually called me one night at 8 o'clock and helped me figure out the problem.

There are a lot of rip offs out there , but Song Surgeon isn't one of them!

I love the program. To be honest, I've used the Tascam CD GT1 since it first came out and was a little skeptical when I came across SS 2.0 by accident on the internet last May. I was about to order a new Tascam unit since the one I had was starting to show signs of wear, but decided to try your demo. From there, I was hooked. I purchased the program and now this Tascam unit collects dust. With some of the new features in SS 3.0, I'm even more excited about it. As a teacher, SS 3 is a must. As a performer, it's just as valuable. I can't wait to start using the finished product.

I love the numerous changes/improvements you made to the software. I am at a  loss for words. I want to tell you which new feature is my favorite, but they are all unique that I can’t pick one over the other.

I have found no other software that compares when it comes to the sound quality that you have obtained at a Tempo slowed to 10% of the original song. It is very, very, very, did I say very, if not I must emphasize very easy to pick out individual notes even on a very fast lead guitar riff.

Being able to control the number of time a selection loops, delaying the loop repeat and making Tempo and Pitch changes within the loop is the most useful for me. I promise that I will learn more songs quicker than ever before with these tools that you have provided us.

Wow, I am very impressed with the sound quality of the files, even when slowed to 20% the fidelity remained intact.  I really like using the wave form editor to create customized practice files.  I was able to paste several different loops into one file to work on my set list for the week.

As a working bass player in a covers band I found Song Surgeon absolutely indispensible.  I thought the first version was good, but version 3 is fantastic.  It's a feature rich application.  To be able to save a slice of a song and just practise to that is great.  I particularly like the Sniffer facility.  It's an easy way of getting an audio track from YouTube to practise to.  I wouldn't be in my current band if it were not for song Surgeon.  I've been able to increase my repertoire much more easily because of Song Surgeon.  Thanks guys!

I just wanted to say that I am looking forward to version 3. I use the current version everyday. It has been amazing for me and a tremendous help for me in learning songs. I would say it has put me many months ahead of others if not a year from where I would be without it. My music teacher is so impressed with what I can do with the program, like bring copies of my lessons that I tape from my song surgeon at lower speeds, i.e., 50%, 60% etc., and practice with those speed of songs until I get to the 100% mark. I know she plans on purchasing the new version 3 when it's released, plus she is recommending it to her other students (there goes my advantage). Again, thanks, version 2 has been great so I can't wait until version 3.

This is a fabulous upgrade over 2.0.  The interface is very nicely laid out.  The tempo slowdown is vastly improved and the Sniffer is darn near worth buying the app in and of itself!  It worked very well. 

Definitely need that music pad, too.  I like having my chords all laid out especially if it's a song I haven't played with in a while. 

This is a wonderful product and one I would highly recommend to any musician.  My brother has been playing keyboard for 45 years and has perfect pitch, but there are occassionally still songs he needs to easily slow down to pick everything out.  Any level musician can benefit from this product.

Song Surgeon 3 is quite possibly the best tool I have ever seen for guitarists of all levels. I wish I could have had a tool like this 20 years ago. The ability to slow down a song without changing the pitch is absolutely phenomenal to me. You can slow down a song as much as you need, create a loop from a section of the song, export it to mp3, practice it when and wherever, and that's just the beginning. I am certain that using this program will also help those who have trouble picking up tunes by ear, because you can hear the notes both at normal speed and slowed down. Excellent work by the Song Surgeon Team. Kudos and a big "ROCK ON!" guys.

I've been working with Song Surgeon since its early days and it provided me a huge help in getting the details out of my favorite guitar pieces. The tempo change and loop functions were particularly useful.

Having Beta-tested Song Surgeon V3 I can say that this new version takes another leap ahead. Not only does it provide a completely new designed and easy to use and understand user interface. It also comes with a bunch of new features, like ripping songs directly from CD incl. storing in different formats, comprehensive editing functions, and multiple loops. Some of these features, however, are available with the PRO version only.

But one of the biggest improvements, in my opinion, is the new sound technology behind the scenes. It takes care for a clean sound even when changing the tempo down to 20% or changing the pitch by +/- 24 steps. Now it's still more fun to listen to and to reveal the secrets of my favorite artists' pieces.

Thank you Jim, and the whole Song Surgeon Team, for this great new version.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy & Successful New Year.

I have tried similiar products over the years but none of them compare in features and functionality to Song Surgeon 3. This program is outstanding!  I have used it for teaching, ear training, improving vocal harmony parts, slowing guitar parts down, etc. The results are always amazing!

The first person I showed this program to bought a copy the very same day!

It is a "must have" tool for any musician from beginner to pro!

The features and improved quality of Song Surgeon 3 are top notch. The layout is great and placing the sniffer in the toolbox is a great idea also. Was worth the wait.

GRAND SLAM!!!!!

WHAT AN IMPROVEMNT ON THE FIRST VERSION

I will reccomend your NEW Song Surgeon to my friends! Its really a comprehensive utility! GREAT JOB JAMES!!!

Its far better than Riff Master Pro!

I just wanted to say that I am blown away by new version of Song Surgeon.

Honestly the version 2 had a pretty interface but it seemed very basic and I couldn't do the things that I wanted to do very easily.I actually used a competitors application call Transkriber because it did all the things that I needed it to do.

I downloaded version 3 a week ago and immediately I was impressed with what you had done. The looping function is great, very easy now to isolate a passage and tweak the start and finish points with the sliders! Then having the ability to save the segment along with tempo changes and pitch is awesome for creating lessons and working on solos etc!

I like the layout especially, since everything is right there where you can get at it, tempo change, pitch change very nice it's all there.

I'm IT Manager and I have to say that I don't think I've ever seen a software application make such a dramatic improvement in just one upgrade.

Needless to say I won't be going back to that other application because Song Surgeon does it all now and with a much cleaner interface. Thanks so much for all the hard work that went into this upgrade.

I almost forgot the best part, you are right when you say the quality is not lost when slowing down the tempo!!! Amazing! Even when slowed to 20% the notes match the notes on the guitar, makes it very easy to transcribe solos!!!

Bingo! I'm running on, but am so very impressed with Song Surgeon. Tried other audio facilities in the past, notably Amazing Slow Downer with the most sourpuss, disagreeable sellers ever encountered. Song Surgeon does it all, plus things I never dreamt could be done, which used to require thousands of dollars' worth of hardware in ample studio space. You may quote me. Thanks!

I recently upgraded to Song Surgeon 3.0 Pro and just love it. It does all that your original program does... and so much more.

I especially like the multiple loops and the individual settings for each loop. I also like the built-in song sniffer and the many keyboard shortcuts, which I am still learning.

Can't wait for the next version. Thanks for an excellent program.

Re any of your competitors' stuff, Song Surgeon is so good I wouldn't waste my time even looking at one of them!!

I recently upgraded to Song Surgeon 3.0 Pro and just love it. It does all that your original program does... and so much more.

I especially like the multiple loops and the individual settings for each loop. I also like the built-in song sniffer and the many keyboard shortcuts, which I am still learning.

Can't wait for the next version. Thanks for an excellent program.

Re any of your competitors' stuff, Song Surgeon is so good I wouldn't waste my time even looking at one of them!!

I am a bass player working for 2 bands at the moment and have a lot of songs to pick up very fast. Song surgeon has increased my capacity by say 80% especially for those fast and funky bass fills that can be a bind to identify in the low registers. This leaves me extra time to just play the song and get into the groove for the next practice. When I can afford Pro the use of loops would be great,

I bought version 3. I should say I presently play with several serious Praise and Worship groups (lead guitar) and have played my whole life. I have bought other software such as Amazing Slow Downer and Digital Music Mentor and NONE of the others compare to this in quality or support assistance. I'll be back for a copy of Video Surgeon next month. Any discounts available?

At St. Alban's Church, we have been without an organist for some time now. I used a digital hymnal for years but it has outlived it's usefulness and it did not contain the tunes I needed.

Because of Song Surgeon, I now download pipe organ music from the internet and can change the MP3 files to suit the Church's needs such as Tempo Change, Key Change, Number of Verses, and Volume Change of certain verses. Since the addition of Fade In / Fade Out, I can now make longer intro's to the hymn files that fade in or add an ending verse that fades perfectly.

The Sniffer is really a great feature for downloading music files and saves some time on converting them.

Overall, "Song Surgeon" is a fantastic software that I could never do without and would recommend to anyone who has a need to manipulate music files. Keep up the excellent work.

It works!!! Whatever you did, it came out fine and opens and works!

I can't thank you enough! Rarely has anyone worked so hard to help..

Kudos to you and Song Surgeon! Thanks so much for your help and your

perseverence! If there's anything I can do for you, let me know...

I play in a 60's Band. Some of us guys played in the 60's in high school. Since we've gotten older w can't sing as high as we used to. So I take the original version of the songs we are learning and drop the pitch by a half step or whole step. This allows all the band members to learn their parts in the lower key, especially the horn section. Then it makes a great practice CD for everyone to practice at home individually. Love my Song Surgeon.

Thanks so much for your prompt attention to my problem. I haven't looked at video surgeon yet but I am blown away by my first look at Song Surgeon. I use to trudge through many cumbersome steps creating loops I could download using audacity and I altho I appreciated what amazing slowdowner could do it was very limited. Your software will save me huge amounts of time with it's streamlined elegance and vastly superior functionality. It's a clean sweet looking piece of software that is a pleasure to work with.

I am very satisfied and happy with my purchase and also with your excellent service.

Thanks. Must tell you, I have a Jam Vox, a Boss EBand, Audicy, and this blows them all away. I can't wait to get the Video Version!

I just watched your videos about the differences between Audacity and Song Surgeon in regards to changing the pitch of a song—entirely or just a section or sections. And I agree that SS does a much better job at changing pitches, as well as changing the tempos of songs. Yes, I have the latest version of SS and just recently I have started using it again, after being “sidetracked” with other pressing problems at home.

I appreciate your understanding and quick response, and I think SS3 is THE BEST. I own Sony Acid Pro 7, and Reaper and Audacity. I have been using PC's since the MS-DOS days. I'm not an IT pro, I certainly am a "power user enthusiast".

I’ve been waiting for foot pedal support since I tried a demo of version 1. It’s finally time to retire my Tascam BT-1.Version 3 is AWESOME!!!!

I've been using the pro version just to create loops and practice my guitar solos. It works great and I like being able to change the pitch to move the song into the key which we are playing it. As per most of these programs I probably only use it to a fraction of its capabilities but I do like the video tutorials which i find helpful. Keep up the good work.

Everything worked perfectly! My version of Song Surgeon is now registered correctly as the PRO version. Thank you for helping me get out of the mess that I created. I also must say that you've really done an outstanding job in creating Song Surgeon, and now it's even better with the addition of Music Pad which is a perfect tool edition to score any music a person needs. Thank you for all your work and creation of Song Surgeon, and for your excellent customer service! As a grateful customer, thank you for everything.

I have been using your amazing program for the last couple of days. I did use the training videos quite a bit before I started using the program. I am a professional pedal steel guitar player and my guitar trainer by tascam finally crapped out on me. all I did was google some software that would do the same thing. I am totally amazed at your software and I will definitely purchase it in the next couple of days soon as the 4 hours of demo starts to run out. I still have about 90 minutes left but I am absolutely going to purchase.

Song Surgeon is a Great Product! I bought Song Surgeon Pro after using the free four hour (fully functional) demo program. The versatility and ease of use is fantastic! I use SS for guitar and flute song work. The quality of sound is just as stated in this video. Great piece of software that will really increase your music learning progress! Test it free for four hours and I think you will agree... It's Most Cool!

As a “newbie” to the technological advances of recent years, I am continually amazed at the frontiers that technology has opened for old dudes like me. I’m a 71 year old retired American male, surviving on a very limited and fixed income, who has taken up guitar playing as a retirement hobby. (The hobby helps retard the encroachment of arthritis in my hands and fingers). I recently discovered “backing tracks” which can be utilized for background music through a guitar amplifier while trying to learn, or practice, new tunes. The problem with many of these tracks was/is: They’re in the “wrong” key for the limited guitar abilities I currently possess, and due to that fact, I’ve had to abandon many of them as potential playing pieces … Until I found Song Surgeon 3. To refer to the capabilities of Song Surgeon 3 as a “miracle” would be cliché. However … its’ capabilities ARE miraculous in the field of melody manipulation. Having only downloaded the Demo version of Song Surgeon3 yesterday, I’ve already converted two mp3 songs to the “proper key” for my playing ability, and I couldn’t be happier, for the abilities of Song Surgeon 3 have enhanced this old man’s future by an incalculable amount, (I’m having a hard time getting the smile off my face!) You can bet I’ll be saving up my money to make a permanent purchase of Song Surgeon 3 in the coming months. Thank you so much for making my day with such a wonderful, useful product. I may be “getting’ on in years”, but I refuse to stop learning!

It does work. Thank you very much for an extremely quick answer, on a Saturday afternoon. That's what I call world class. Thank you again

Thank you for the excellent customer support. I know that you appreciate the value of same. My wife and I are members of a bluegrass band and will be sure to spread a positive word about your product and company.

I have already purchased the Song Surgeon Pro Upgrade and it is awesome !!! I play Saxophone and the slow down aspect of this wonderful tool has helped me with understanding improvisation tremendously. Thank you and Be Blessed.

Thanks, Guys, for the incredible effort you are expending on getting the Mac version 'right'. Your programs, when released, are good from the get-go, and do all that you say they do, and usually more. Of course, we of the Mac world are the patient types, and appreciate things which work well, as Macs do. You have our (your loyal customers and friends) total support. I am running OS X 10.6.8 right now, but may go onward and upward with 10.7 after the New Year. Will see how SS will work with 10.7.0. If it's compatible, then I'll update the OS. If not, I'll keep it the way it is. That's how important SS is to me! We wish you all the best holiday ever, no matter how you celebrate it. With all best wishes for the New Year, which I can see will definitely be the best ever!

Great. The speed of your response gives a complete new meaning of the term "customer support". Are you going for the world championship? Brilliant.

"Geniales Werkzeug
Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich mir Son Surgeon 3 in der Standardversion istalliert und bin absolut begeisert. Man kann die Geschwindigkeit der Stuecke stufenlos veraendern - sowohl verlangsamen als auch beschleunigen, wobei die Tonhoehe unveraendert bleibt. Zusätzlich kann man davon unabhängig die Tonhoehe anpassen, was besonders bei aelteren Aufnahmen aus den 60ern und 70ern sehr praktisch sein kann, da man damals oft um einen Viertelton daneben lag. Diese Aenderungen kann man auf das ganze Stueck anwenden oder auf sogenannte Loops, also auf Ausschnitte, die man dann beliebig oft nacheinander hoeren kann. Diese Programm spart so nicht nur immens Zeit, sondern ist auch das einzige mir bekannte Werkzeug, mit dem auch schwierige und schnelle Passagen absolut korrekt erfasst werden können. Dabei stellt sich oft heraus, dass die im Netz frei erhaeltlichen Tabs und Noten absolut nicht der Realitaet entsprechen.Der Service ist fast erschreckend schnell. Ich habe letzten Samstag um 00.36 eine Frage gemailt und hatte um 00.56 eine freundliche und kompetente Antwort. Die Standardversion reicht für meine jetzigen Ansprueche eigentlich aus, ich werde jedoch auf die Pro-Version aufruesten, da damit einige zusaetzliche Funktionen möglich sind, die die Oberflaeche noch komfortabler gestalten."

Thank you very much for your speedy response!! I have both Song Surgeon & Video Surgeon on my new computer now. The only problem now is my new Song Surgeon is only the standard version but on my old computer it is the pro version. How do I get the pro version on my new computer? Thank you again & sorry for the trouble!!! Love your software!!!

I use Song Surgeon mainly to transpose songs to my key and to change the tempo. Recently because I use backing tracks I have been using it to change the volume to certain parts of the songs. It's a great program especially for us amateurs

SongSurgeon is a very useful tool. Upon all I appreciate the possibility to change the speed as well as the pitch. I also like the "nose" in order to catch songs from YouTube, although it does not work all the time. This gives me the opportunity to play along with the recorded songs.

Incredible program, guys! Thanks for creating something so extremely versatile for musicians of all skill levels, it should be included in every institution's curriculum as a foundational element. I've only had SS a week and already I'm twice the player I was! Xoxoxoxo

James, thanks for the continued customer support. I must tell you how pleased I am with Song Surgeon. The video tutorials are excellent and I have watched most of them. However, I find Song Surgeon to be intuitive and very easy to use. This is a quality program and I am using it each day in my practice. Kind regards from a very happy mandolin player.

I can go on practicing. Song Surgeon really helps especially when I practice phrasing. To play notes and to play a phrase are two different things (as you probably know), and SS makes it so much easier to learn to play phrases and music - and not just separate notes. With all the best wishes from Finland