"Greg Mayman" wrote to "Mike Ross" (19 Dec 02  09:02:00)
 --- on the topic of "TALKING BOOKS"

 -=> Mike Ross said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "TALKING BOOKS" on 12-16-02  10:56.....
 MR>   but I still haven't found
 MR> one that does manuscript sheet music yet! 

 GM> That's the hard part.

 GM> One of my aquaintances was looking for a computer program that
 GM> would transpose and print music -- he is a singer and not every
 GM> bit of music he can buy is in his range.

 GM> A mutual friend told him about Cakewalk, which I have been using
 GM> for about 4 years, which should do the job of transposing and
 GM> printing, but his problem is entering the music into the program.
 GM> He sure could use an ocr that would read musical scores.

I found a little program called Music Studio which is very good with
musical notation. Not to argue but I think it's better than CW at it. I
tried another called Voyetra Digital Orchestrator but it too isn't as
easy as Music Studio with musical notation.


 GM> I suggested that he should go to a firm I knew of that
 GM> specializes in computer music, but I don't think he ever went
 GM> there. The local comptuter shop was much more convenient.

 GM> As a result he's just paid out about $3000 for a new computer
 GM> without buying ANY of the software that he will need to do the
 GM> job.

 GM> Ah, well, he can probably afford it...

Ouch just the same...


 GM> OTOH there used to be software for "reading" a musical recording
 GM> or a live pickup, and outputing it to a printed score. Byte had
 GM> an article about it, some 15+ years ago.

 GM> It could even sort out one instrument, say an oboe, from an
 GM> orchestral recording. I guess there was a lot of high speed
 GM> waveform analysis going on...

Oh, that is some feat alright. The only thing I can do really easily is
read a MID file and then separate the tracks into musical staffs for
printing but I guess that's a given. But to actually pick out an
individual instrument from a busy recording is quite astounding and that
seems to me even harder than voice recognition!!! Maybe I'm wrong...

 Mike
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