Disklavier

Buffy,

I have resisted moving from Windows 2000 Professional to XP simply 
because I have found Windows 2000 Professional to be very stable and to 
meet my needs.  Thus I cannot really comment on whether any part of your 
problems with Photoscore are due to Windows XP.  

I do know that the scanner makes a very big difference in the results 
with music scanning programs.  Initially I was scanning music using an 
HP 6100C flatbed scanner that appeared to give good scans of the music. 
 However when Smart Score (which I was using at the time) read the 
scanned files, it produced a ton of errors.  I actually gave up on music 
scanning for more than a year due to these results.  When I purchased an 
Epson 1200 Perfection scanner, I decided to try once more to use Smart 
Score and scan in music files.  The results were far far fewer errors. 
 I would presume that this would hold true for Photoscore as well.  

Incidentally, when I scan music using Photoscore, I use the Photoscore 
interface set to 300 dpi (the middle setting in the dialog box) and it 
gives very good results with my Epson 2450 scanner. I have never used 
the Epson twain software for music scanning.

Within Sibelius it is possible to save the score as a midi file.  I 
simply save the file as a midi file and then I use Veloset (a very 
useful utility found in the files on this forum) to adjust my velocities 
so that the velocity does not fall below 20 nor above 90.  This gives a 
file that plays very nicely with my disklavier's volume set at 0 dB on 
its control unit.  To play the file in my disklavier, I usually put it 
on a floppy disk, but you can also play it directly from your computer 
on the disklavier with the appropriate cables and drivers on your 
computer.  

Tom


buffy@... wrote:

> Tom,
>  
> Thank you for your lengthy response.  I will give it another try.  I 
> am afraid I may be having problems with xp and my HP Scanjet 6300c.  I 
> have a spare machine and own Win2000 Professional,  so I may try 
> putting it on that and doing the scanning over my network.   But from 
> what I understand about the scanjet 6300c,  it is 2000 and up that it 
> is having a problem with.  So I think my next step may be to purchase 
> a new scanner.
>  
> I do not play.  I use my disklavier for accompianst recording.  I use 
> Sibelius to learn my music.  I am an opera singer and I find that by 
> the time I put my music in Sibelius,  (esp 20century music) I have 
> learned it and memorized it.  So scanning is not that big an issue.
>  
> How do you convert Sibelius to play on your disklavier?  I have an old 
> model purchased 7 years ago with a floppy disk, not cd.  I find the 
> voicing, when I convert it to be an issue.
>  
> Thanks for all your time on the Sibelius/Photoscan issue.
>