Clayton, I use Song Surgeon and love it.  I have never used Transcribe and so can not make any comparative statements.  I have seen some threads in other forums asking for comparisons.  And, predictably, they just turned into  polls.  Whoever had the particular software swore it was the best.

The only possible difference I have heard is that someone once said that at very slow speeds Song Surgeon sound quality is possibly better than Transcribe.  That is absolute, unquestionable interwebs forum talk bunk.  I don't know that it's true.

I do know that I can slow down Song Surgeon to very slow speeds and the quality remains good.  For my practicing, speeds have to go to very slow speeds! 🤣 Below is a picture of the Song Surgeon interface with an arrow pointing to two buttons.  The going to slow speeds and maintaining quality may relate to these.  Song Surgeon has two modes of operation and one chooses the mode you want.  The "P" is for performance, I think.  For this you choose a little faster performance and a slightly lesser quality sound.  The other, "T" (I don't remember what it stands for) chooses higher quality sound but it uses more system resources.   I've never really seen much difference in switching!

Honestly Clayton I don't use Song Surgeon that much.  What I do use daily and for a major portion of every practice session is Video Surgeon from the same company.  It does for video what Song Surgeon does for audio files.  I currently have Robert's Jingle Bell Blues loaded in it and the chorus in on a loop and at about 76% speed.  I have seen Robert recommend Video Surgeon on a couple occasions.  IT is without question my most important, valuable software learning aid.  But I am off topic.

I agree with Ron regarding Song Surgeon. It is a good, quality product.

I wondered about it for quite some time and then very recently picked it up on sale, which I would recommend anyone interested in buying it do... watch for a sale. It is more expensive than Transcribe, even when on sale! I got it for $59.95 during a sale over Thanksgiving weekend.

I also have Transcribe, which is also a great product. It's still early to say but I think I may end up favoring Song Surgeon for some features that I really like. Such as

• Ability to name loops
• Ability to save loops 
• Determine the BPM of a song
• The chord analyzer MIGHT be accurate [based on a very small sampling]

The Song Surgeon interface and features are very well thought out. I think that Song Surgeon may be updated and kept more up to date... 

There are 2 versions of Song Surgeon. I have the basic version or standard. The Pro version offers additional features that I wasn't sure I would want, though I may change my mind and upgrade at some point.

Hope that helps some.

I've used Song Surgeon and I like it. Just today, the creator of the program emailed me and said a promotion is coming in January. If you wait until then, you'll get it at a lower price. I will probably email my subscribers about this at that time.

Have used it since Robert first mentioned it on here. Very good tool and sound quality. Before that I had used Riff station but now defunct. Jamvox got into this kind of software years ago but man the technology is just advancing beyond what one could imagine.