How we created Yalp Android app

  11 February 2017  |   

Yalp is the first in the World chords recognition android app based on AI (Artificial Intelligence) with a full access to a database of hundreds of thousands songs. Cool! It has been a long journey but finally we did it: Yalp android mobile is live (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.yalp.app). We are very proud of it and we want to… Read More

The quest for Tonality: a “helical” solution

  18 August 2016  |   

  The Tonnetz –  a tone network Leonhard Euler was the first to describe the relationships among pitches by using a network called the Tonnetz  [1]. Although this structure has been largely generalised, see for instance [2,3], the original idea was to create a diagram mirroring the acoustical proximity of pitch classes (pitches modulo octave) of the chromatic… Read More

Yalp & YouTube direct integration

  13 May 2016  |   

We have just released a new direct integration to YouTube A.P.I. Starting from now, you can search YouTube songs directly from yalp.io search bar. Simple and fast. When you start to digit, we send your request to YouTube’ servers and you instantly get results within yalp.io. The next step is to click on the tune… Read More

Time Signature

  15 March 2016  |   

We just released a new update of yalp.io. We are able to estimate the time signature of the music that you want to play. Upload the mp3 or paste the YouTube URL as usual and if correctly calculated we show the Estimated Time Signature. Are you ready to play your next 5/4 music track?… Read More

Come out and play!

  1 March 2016  |   

Music is a social activity. That’s why we added to yalp.io a “print music” functionality! Mr Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) once said: When I think about kids watching a TV show like American Idol or The Voice, then they think, ‘Oh, OK, that’s how you become a musician, you stand in line for eight… Read More

Let’s do the “Time stretch” again!

  8 February 2016  |   

Paraphrasing a famous song, we have just added a very cool feature to learning and practicing music on www.yalp.io.   Starting from now you can adjust the speed of the music without affecting the pitch: just push the arrows up & down to change it. So if you wanna learn a very difficult song, now you can… Read More

2015 – yalp.io year in music

  5 January 2016  |   

It has been a good year for music industry. Bruno Mars made us all dance with Uptown funk, Taylor Swift received 14 nominations in 13 categories, Ed Sheeran has been streamed a lot on Spotify and the world remembered Amy Winehouse after the release of “Amy”, the documentary about her life. The yalp.io most played tracks… Read More

Welcome

  30 December 2015  |   

Here we are! This is the blog of yalp.io automatic chords transcription’s app. We’ll use this resource to publish app’s announcements and updates about our technology. Meanwhile, go to yalp.io and start jamming on your favorite track. It’s time for rock and roll!… Read More