Music Score Programs

[ichky]

Hi All,

Does anyone know a very good program that will produce / write out music scores for you simply by just having me playing or that can convert into scores from midi or mp3 or wav files etc?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you in Advance.

Ichky

[nikolasideris]

There simply isn't such a software.

Your playing is not as accurate as the computers, so you HAVE to quantize afterwards. And the computer will make silly mistakes, especially if you mix triplets with normal beams, etc... The computer has no way of knowing how you want these to be played and it will approach them in the worst manner most of the times!

If you attempt to create a score directly on what you played you'll end up with a dotted 32nd note tied to a double dotted quaver, etc... Stuff like that which will make the score impossible to read.

Then you would have to divide the hands. If you assume that you're recording both hands at the same time, this will go to the same midi track, which in turn will have ALL the notes, undivided. And you'd have to divide them manually.

And of course you would need to create the articulations, signs, and dynamics manually, since even the expression maps in sequencers still are not fully capable of doing that.

And of course don't get me started on page layout, paging, etc...

So, no, there isn't a way to directly create a score from your playing.

You can, however, have a metronome (on the computer) and record as accurately as possible, without rubato and stuff, in which case your job will be tons easier, but you need to remember what needs to be done later on, even if you don't play it.

Hope this helps a bit.