[comp.sys.atari.st] music program needed

dennis@marge.math.binghamton.edu (dennis pixton) (03/22/89)

	I'm not a musician, but my wife is, and she needs a program to do the
following:  

	Accept music as input -- either from the ST keyboard or (if we ever
buy one) from a MIDI keyboard -- transpose it to a specified key -- and
print the results in standard musical notation (PostScript would be nice).

	Does such a thing exist for the ST??  Or for IBM or Mac (to give us
an excuse to buy ditto or spectre)??

	Any pointers will be appreciated.
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Dennis Pixton				
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"Martin_Cooper.osbunorth"@XEROX.COM (03/30/89)

Dennis,

There are a number of software packages that will do what you want. These
are sequencing/notation packages aimed at the MIDI market, allowing you to
do just about everything from recording your work in real time and printing
out complete notation, to reading in manually entered notation and playing
it back on a MIDI device in real time, with everything in between.
Unfortunately, they're by no means inexpensive. The absolute best of these
is Notator by C-Lab, which lists for $595, although you should be able to
pick it up for $495 or less.

	Martin.

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