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Offline raketen

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Help me with thesse notes please!
on: June 05, 2007, 08:18:27 PM
Hello, im new to the forum and never played a piano in my whole life. I allways wanted to but never had the time to learn. Anyways i heard a song this day, a song from one of my favorites oldschool games - Ultima Online - Main theme. And i wonder if someone have the notes or can write them down for me so that when i start to take my classes i got my favorite song to play =) THX!!! here is the song:

https://www.vgmusic.com/music/computer/microsoft/windows/Mainthe.mid

EDIT: Lol sorry can any operator move this thread to a correct location?

Offline pianistimo

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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #1 on: June 05, 2007, 11:15:39 PM
nobody is motivated anymore to write it all down by hand (unless someone on here is) - when software like 'notation' is available.  you just put in the mp3 and out comes the score.  i think that's what i've heard.  you might want to call some music stores and find out - but if you like to play unusual music for which you cannot find the scores - this would be the way to do it.

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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #2 on: June 05, 2007, 11:55:53 PM
nobody is motivated anymore to write it all down by hand (unless someone on here is) - when software like 'notation' is available.  you just put in the mp3 and out comes the score.  i think that's what i've heard. 

Lol where did you hear that? That would be "very helpful". I spent MONTHS writing down the scores of my program with a notation software and I have had all this in mp3. That's nothing but an unfortunately (well is it ACTUALLY unfortunate?) untrue legend. Nowhere I could find a program that writes scores from mp3's. I DID find one, okay, I bought it even. But that one delivers completely useless results. :P ;D

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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #3 on: June 06, 2007, 12:11:19 AM
i guess  my husband is wrong for once in his life.  he was telling me that he heard there was a program out that did it.  i was thinking he said 'notation' or 'notion.'  but anyways - sorry if the info was wrong.  perhaps the old fashioned way is the only way still. 

you could go into a uni theory department and see if any students need a 'project' to do and how they would go about doing it. 

pianowolfi, which one did you buy? 

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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #4 on: June 06, 2007, 12:33:22 AM
Import the midi.
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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #5 on: June 06, 2007, 03:10:38 AM
I'd just like to say that Ultima Online is the best game ever.
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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #6 on: June 06, 2007, 09:27:50 PM
The most I've heard a program can do to turn an audio recording into printed music is one or two lines simultaneously.

If there is something more, let me know. 

One program was AudioScore I think.  But that's only one lines. 

At some point, I used one.  I must have had a demo version.  I remember gave some notes of the melody (mess up notation of course) and some bass notes.  A few chords.  Stuff that was helpful, but I could have figured out myself pretty quick anyway.
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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #7 on: June 06, 2007, 09:50:28 PM
i guess  my husband is wrong for once in his life. 

Tempted, but she might not see the funny side.

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Offline rach n bach

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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #8 on: June 06, 2007, 09:51:23 PM
buuuuurn
I'm an optimist... but I don't think it's helping...

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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #9 on: June 09, 2007, 09:58:16 AM
The most I've heard a program can do to turn an audio recording into printed music is one or two lines simultaneously.

If there is something more, let me know. 

https://lgm.fri.uni-lj.si/sonic.html

I haven't tried it out myself but there are examples on the site.

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Re: Help me with thesse notes please!
Reply #10 on: June 09, 2007, 10:06:19 AM
https://www.vgmusic.com/music/computer/microsoft/windows/Mainthe.mid

It's a midi file, you can import it in a midi program which will visualize the notes. Here is a free program that can do that: https://www.noteworthysoftware.com/player/
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