Disklavier

Danny's advice is well-taken.

Also, be aware that sheet music translated to MIDI and played on a synth 
or DKV is rarely very satisfying musically.  The artist who records on 
keyboard provides expression to a piece that is lacking in the literal 
notation.  In general, written notation is only an approximation of what 
a human artist actually plays.  You may convince yourself of that by 
taking the MIDI version of a well-played performance and converting it 
back to notation.  You will likely get a complex indecipherable mess of 
notes and rests that hardly resembles the notation from which it was played.

Scanning and playing sheet notation can be useful.  Suppose, for 
example, you are trying to learn to play a piece and would like to hear 
some passage played literally.  Converting it to MIDI can be helpful for 
that purpose.

Whether you use Finale or Sibelius, you will first need to learn to edit 
notation using the application.  Although scanning applications, such as 
PhotoScore, have improved immensely over their earlier versions, their 
output still someimes challenges one's ability to edit it.  Sometimes, 
it's just as easy to start from scratch using Sibelius or Finale.

Danny wrote:
> From: "anresadi" <anresadi@...>
> 
>>I have a disklavier Mark2xg and love the way it sounds. Is there a
>>way to use a scanner on sheet music and then have it play on the
>>piano?
>>Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  There are a handful of programs out there that do just this. However, this is
> not an 'exact' science and you _will_ need to do some followup manual editing to
> get it correct. Especially if you have a lot of different types of 'visual'
> markings such as dynamics and tempo changes.
> 
> Finale, a popular music notation program, comes with Smartscore Lite which is a
> bit limited. Another notation program, Sibelius comes with a program called
> Photoscore Lite. These programs allow just what you are speaking of. Finale and
> Sibelius don't come cheap however.
> 
> Smartscore and MIDIscan are two of the 'stand-alone programs that are available
> for either using a scanner to scan in score material or they can accept a score
> that is already in some of the .TIFF, PICT, WMF, etc. type files. They can then
> 'create' the MIDI files...
> 
> 
> Danny
> 
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