haugen@bulus3.BMA.COM (John M. Haugen) (08/10/89)
Our church has a rather talented music director who can sit down at his keyboard and play original accompaniments to songs used in our service. Is there any software that could use the MIDI interface on the keyboard to generate the musical score for the music being played? I am a novice in this area of computer interfaces though I do know that there exists hardware to connect almost any type of computer to the MIDI interface on the keyboard. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! John M. Haugen Domain: haugen@BMA.COM Bull Micral of America UUCP: ...!uunet!bulus3!haugen 1970 Oakcrest Ave. #300 ATT: 612-633-5660 St. Paul, MN 55113-2624
mketch@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael D. Ketchen) (08/16/89)
In article <209@bulus3.BMA.COM> haugen@bulus3.BMA.COM (John M. Haugen) writes: >Our church has a rather talented music director who can sit down at his >keyboard and play original accompaniments to songs used in our service. Is >there any software that could use the MIDI interface on the keyboard to >generate the musical score for the music being played? Finale, by Coda, is the most powerful music transcription program on the market. Unfortunately, it is also the most expensive ($1000). You can play on the MIDI keyboard, and Finale will convert it into a quite accurate score. Finale is available for the Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles. For about the same price, you can get Performer (a sequencer) and Professional Composer (a music scoring program), both by Mark of the Unicorn, for the Macintosh. You can play things into Performer, then use Composer to generate the score. Composer isn't quite as powerful at transcription, but you'll get Performer, which is a first-rate sequencer, to boot. - Mike -- |XXX| __/\__ |XXX|--------------------------+-----------------********========= |XXX| \ / |XXX| Michael D. Ketchen | This space ********========= |XXX| /____\ |XXX| mketch@pawl.rpi.edu | for rent... ================= |XXX| ][ |XXX| mketch@rpitsmts.bitnet +-----------------=================
mes@sequent.UUCP (Mike Seyfrit) (08/16/89)
Just a note: the price for Finale has been recently reduced, I think
it is now $599, quite a decrease from the original $1000. The packaging
is a bit different, and they don't supply the promotional (one can't really
say "educational") video tape any more, but the program is the same.
I, for one, recommend it to those who
1. want to control very many aspects of the score
2. understand music well.
3. know how they want things to look
I wouldn't recommend it for the more casual user. It takes some effort
to learn, and is a bit daunting at first. I, however, would never want
to be without it again. I've just finished about 300 pages of score
that would have taken me at least 6 months longer to do if I had to copy
it by hand. The proofeading is much better (via playing it back) and
the copy is easily readable (there is a strong prejudice against reading
manuscript parts by many performers). I use it every day, and am glad
to have given up my osmiroid and rapidograph pens!
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In article <6779@rpi.edu> mketch@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael D. Ketchen) writes: >Finale, by Coda, is the most powerful music transcription program on the >market. Unfortunately, it is also the most expensive ($1000). Finale's price has been cut almost in half recently, because Coda finally realized that for a 1000 bucks, people were getting a program that, while incredibly powerful, is also incredibly difficult (I have other words for it that can't be said due to net-iquette) and slow - even on a 2Meg Mac SE with a hard drive. There is also a stripped down version called Finale Jr. (or something like that) that sells for even less. I would be curious to know what features have been changed/removed in this new version.