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I need a program that will ask you to sing some song, and then check notes one by one and tell you where you got it wrong, so that I can finally learn to sing properly.

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... check notes? What are you, an electronic synthesizer? – Mehrdad Jan 7 at 23:04
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@Mehrdad: I don't know at all about music, but ... people can sing notes. Your brain and your vocal cords are the synthesizer. – grawity Jan 7 at 23:17
@grawity: Idk, it sounds a bit difficult to extract the frequencies and try to detect what note people are trying to sing while rejecting the notes you don't want... unless you can sing pure tones (and your song is also in pure tones...) – Mehrdad Jan 8 at 1:11
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@Mehrdad: Only takes some Fast Fourier Transform and you have actual detected all the notes that people are trying to sing, take the ones that interest you the most out of that and you can build this... – Tom Wijsman Jan 8 at 1:31
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@Mehrdad: You have to use headphones or in-ear buds to work around that, or just not play a song in the background. – Tom Wijsman Jan 8 at 1:42
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Music Masterworks from Aspire Software is a good option for what you are trying to achieve. It visually maps your vocal frequencies to notes and also has a mode which enables you to compare how you perform against a preloaded midi file so that you know how you fared. They have a 30 day trial period as well. I've also used SingAndSee in the past with mixed results, but it was a few years ago and they might have a improved version now, you may want to give it a shot.

If you are serious about your music then along with both these I'd recommend a decent mic and an entry level studio monitor.

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What do you mean by an entry level studio monitor? Are these more costly software products or are they actually hardware monitors? Can you link an example of an entry level studio monitor? – Tom Wijsman Jan 8 at 2:02
Yes I actually meant hardware a speaker to be specific. Studio monitors are speakers with a flatter frequency response unlike commercial audiophile solutions typically tuned to appease a certain frequency range/pattern and are more enjoyable. Examples of such a speaker would be the M-Audio AV40, Roland/Edirol MA-15D etc. link link – IUnknown Jan 8 at 7:11
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Passagio is the second most responsive solution I have seen so far (first place goes to an iPhone app), which responds quite fast which is important if you are actually trying to sing a song rather than hitting individual notes.

Besides that, Sing and See also works pretty decent but isn't as responsive as the earlier mentioned applications. It's more handy to practice on hitting notes than to sing a song, this program actually was built with teaching in mind which is why it is more precise on determining the pitch rather than quickly taking the first the best value.

When I was searching after this I haven't found much oher good solutions to this. Singing Coach was kinda childish and wasn't well written to actually store the songs I made in it, I probably had to run it as an administrator or so but then it still would do odd things.

So well, if you sing songs Passagio (or Music Masterworks, although I don't know how well that behaves) seems the way to go, when you want to actually get in pitch you can go for Sing and See.

Or, do it completely different and go for Pitch Perfect on the iPhone or have fun with KaraokeParty.

Alternatives include SingStar on the PS3, Lips on Xbox 360 and Wii Speak based games on the Wii.

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