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2003-01-04 by gazzyc <gary.connoley@ntlworld.com>
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
2003-01-04 by midi_magic2000 <magic_midi@hotmail.com>
Hi I have used scanning software but it took me longer to correct all of the errors than it would have if i had entered it all in by hand. Pitch errors are easy to do, it's the timing ones that are hard to fix. As for reading the cord symbles.........I don't think so. Good luck though Midi Magic --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "gazzyc <gary.connoley@n...>" <gary.connoley@n...> wrote: > 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
2003-01-04 by PianoBench@aol.com
2003-01-04 by Carol Beigel
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 > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail