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Well, usually (?) it means turning a piece of music (audio) into written sheet music/a score. It means that in jazz and...I believe many kinds of contemporary music. (In classical music I've heard it applied to e.g. turning an orchestral score into a piano score, i.e. an arrangement.) Here they appear to just make MIDI files, avoiding the problem of how to write the notes most readably, which is a significant part of transcription, in both these senses.

All the examples given here, though, appear to be of a super-simple variety, with dead-simple chords, all notes with robotic, mathematically-simple timing over fixed tempos produced apparently by drum machines - like toy music, the kind of music that's no challenge at all to transcribe, and in the real world I wouldn't bother transcribing by hand as there's nothing to be learnt by doing so, as you can hear exactly what's going on without it. So, that's weird.



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