Keyboard to PC via midi, transcribe, edit music score..

sabiki2

Sorry if I have the terminology wrong here, I'm not musically educated just hoping to try and help a musical friend.

So, 'musician' is writing a new song, plays it on a keyboard, has a pc laptop and a set of midi cables (think its midi to usb). Would like to record the music on the computer through midi, (not as a sound wave) and see the music score transcribed and displayed on screen. Hopefully could simply save, print off the score, even edit the score, change notes on screen.

I guess this should be fairly simple to achieve but I get completely lost when trying to find software.

I'm thinking years ago I saw this done quite simply with a keyboard connected to an Atari ST via midi cables. If I remember correctly it was Activision's Music Studio software.
I can't seem to find something similar for the PC, everything seems so much more complicated. We just want something quite simple really.
Any ideas? Would prefer shareware s/w or trial software until we experiment a bit.
thanks!

sabiki2

I must have posted this in the wrong forum - not one suggestion!

Anyway, in case anybody else ever finds this post and wants to know the outcome, this is what I found....Notation Composer. (http://www.notation.com/Products.htm)

An awkward application to work with, but it does the following:

Notation Composer 2.5
Arrange and compose music:

* Lets you enter notes using your mouse, computer keyboard, or by recording "live" from a MIDI instrument
* Gracefully places the music symbols in the score automatically, so that you can focus on making music rather than drawing notation.
* Enables you to easily and fully edit both the notation and playback sound (MIDI) of music scores.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

cubase will do this for you as well ( depending on version )

madtheory

Sibelius and Finale are the standard applications. There's a free version of Finale called Finale Notepad, it's excellent. Sibelius can include the very best orchestral libraries.