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

  • 03-12-2008 01:03PM
    #1
    sabiki2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭


    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!


Comments

  • #2
    sabiki2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭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.


  • #3
    i57dwun4yb1pt8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭i57dwun4yb1pt8


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


  • #4
    madtheory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭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.


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