Disklavier

Oh that scanning software should work as well as they say it does!   The 
editing process is brutal.  The only people I ever heard of that were 
reasonably pleased with the process were using the more expensive software 
packages, i.e. $600 and up.  The CubaBase system uses Piano Score (?) that 
someone mentioned last week.  Finale (a scoring program)  uses Smart Score.  
Finale also uses a Band In A Box plug-in to do exactly what you want to do.

I would definitely go with PianoBench's recommdation of Band In A Box.  
Also, that Teach Yourself Piano from Voyetra also looks really promising.  I 
also noticed at my local music store that they sell CDs with hundreds of 
MIDI songs that you can print your own sheet music.

However, there is a free way to do this.  If you want the sheet music for a 
song, search the internet for it's MIDI file.  Then take it into a free 
sequencer program, like Jazz++ and print out the sheet music.  You will 
quickly learn that the creation of MIDI files takes more skill than just 
scanning a sheet of music!

After playing with a lot of this software, I have really developed an 
appreciation for MIDI files created by people who know what they are doing, 
and for those that have made their work available in the public domain, I am 
very grateful.  For those who make a living doing this, I am more than 
willing to pay for the songs I like.  However, like many folks I know, I 
often have to pay for songs in a bundle that I don't like, and therefore, I 
am interested in copying just the songs I want to hear to disks or 
playlists.  I've even attempted to print out a few to try to learn to play, 
but it's really an awesome process!

Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...

>From: "gazzyc <gary.connoley@...>" <gary.connoley@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] Scanning manuscripts
>Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:15:59 -0000
>
>Hi
>
>Does anyone have experience of scanning music so that they can be
>converted into midi files and played on the Disklavier. I would like to use 
>this
>system for education/practice.
>
>The music books I have tend to have a melody line and chords written above
>in short format ie Am7. The software needs to be able to detect the chords 
>as
>well.
>
>TIA
>
>Gary
>


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