Disklavier

I second everything Tom has said.  Buffy, in using PhotoScore 2, here 
are a couple of critical points you might wish to check:

*  Be sure to use a recent version of PhotoScore.

*  As Tom has advised, start with very crisply printed notation.

*  If you are scanning with your HP software to produce the BMP files, 
make sure you are scanning to 100% size and are set up for 400 X 400 dpi 
resolution (no more, no less).  I also use an HP scanner, a ScanJet 4C; 
its software user interface is absolutely underwater.  Once I got the 
settings figured out, PhotoScore immediately purred.  A scanned 8.5 x 11 
page will be about 11 to 15 MB.  If your scanned BMP files are not in 
that ballpark, that's likely your problem.

Tom Wheeler wrote:
> Buffy,
> 
> I am presently using Sibelius 2.1 and its associated scanning program 
> called Photoscore Professional.  I am using an Epson 2450 Photo scanner. 
>   This is a standard flatbed scanner that can also be adapted for 
> scanning slides and color negatives.  Of course for music scanning, I 
> use it as a straightforward flatbed scanner.  My computer is a P4 1.8 
> GHZ with 1 GB of RAM running Windows 2000 Professional.  I find 
> Photoscore's scanning accuracy is very very good as long as the music 
> that you are scanning is clear and well defined, i.e. the case for 
> virtually all standard published music.  (I recently scanned in a six 
> page score of advanced piano music without a single note error using 
> Photoscore Professional 2.1!) Photoscore (nor any other music scanning 
> program that I know of) will not handle handwritten or smudged and 
> poorly printed music very well at all.   Photoscore places little red 
> note symbols above each measure of the score after reading it to show 
> you errors that have occurred in terms of the time signature.  Clicking 
> on a single button in Photoscore imports the scanned score directly into 
> Sibelius 2.1 for further editing.  
> 
> I do not attempt to correct all of the errors that are shown in 
> Photoscore after it reads a scan.  For example, pickup measures are 
> shown as error's after a Photoscore scan, but are best corrected in 
> Sibelius rather than correcting them in Photoscore since Sibelius 
> requires that a measure which does not have the correct number of beats 
> defined by the time signature be created as an "irregular" measure 
> within the Sibelius program.  I often do not correct voicing errors in 
> Photoscore because they are easier to correct after getting the score in 
> Sibelius.  Finally, I use Sibelius for adding any musical expressions 
> not immediately recognized by Photoscore.
> 
> Be prepared to spend some time in Sibelius after transferring the 
> scanned and read file from Photoscore.  This is not only to correct 
> errors that were not caught in Photoscore but also to add musical 
> expressions many of which are not recognized or interpreted in playback 
> correctly by Photoscore.  For example, even though the six pages of 
> music that I referred to above were scanned in without note errors, I 
> spent about 2 hours after tranferring the file into Sibelius in order to 
> add the musical expressions in the score, implement them proeprly in 
> playback, and format the score properly.  Thus my total time to scan in 
> the score, correct all errors, add all dynamics and other musical 
> expressions, and prepare the midi file for playback on my disklavier was 
> about 3 hrs for this piece of music.  (I might add that at my skill 
> level I have had to work on this piece of music for four weeks at one 
> hour per day in order to play it reasonably well.)
> 
> Sibelius has some very nice playback features including artificial 
> intelligence algorithms for adding rubato and phrasing to the playback. 
>  This is retained in the midi file during playback on your disklavier or 
> your computer sound card.  
> 
> Scanning in sheet music is expensive (in terms of both software costs 
> and time to complete the score to one's satisfaction).  However, it is a 
> technological marvel to me that this is possible at all considering the 
> incredible complexity of musical notation.  By the time I have scanned 
> in and corrected a piece for good playback on my disklavier using 
> Sibelius and Photoscore, I am in a much better position to understand 
> the music's structure and proceed to learn the piece.  
> 
> If your piano skills are good, then music scanning is undoubtedly more 
> trouble and expense than it is worth with the present state of the 
> technology.  However, if you are learning and your skills are not equal 
> to the task of real time playback of sheet music that you are interested 
> in, then scanning is a much faster way of entering the music into the 
> computer than any other method of which I am aware.  
> 
> I am not sure if I really answered your question.  If not, please feel 
> free to contact me privately by e-mail, and I'll try again.
> 
> Tom
> 
> buffy@... wrote:
> 
>> Tom, 
>>  
>> I gave up on photoscore cause it took longer to revise the errors.  
>> I'm using xp and hp scan jet 6300c.  What are you using.  I get so 
>> frustrated that I find it is not worth the time.
>>  
>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>  
>> Buffy
>>
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