-=> Mike Ross said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "TALKING BOOKS" on 12-19-02  14:44.....

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

There is a shareware DOS prog called MUSICESE  that is very
good. One of my friends liked it so much he registered -- US$35,
IIRC.
 
 GM> Ah, well, he can probably afford it...
 MR> Ouch just the same...

This character has a wife who once boasted that she believed she
had more money put away than all the people at the table put
together. This was in the middle of a non-specific conversation
about superannuation, pensions, and the like.

She's always boasting about their overseas holidays, and so on,
to us people who haven't got enough spare cash to take a weekend
in the country.

If he wants to waste her money, good for him, is all I can say 

 MR> Oh, that is some feat alright. The only thing I can do really easily
 MR> is read a MID file and then separate the tracks into musical staffs for
 MR> printing but I guess that's a given. But to actually pick out an

Yup, me too.

 MR> individual instrument from a busy recording is quite astounding and
 MR> that seems to me even harder than voice recognition!!! Maybe I'm
 MR> wrong... 

I suspect it might be easier. All you have to do is pick out
frequencies that have harmonically related overtones. This will
usually indicate that it is the output of one instrument.

Even two instruments playing in unison would be slightly
different in pitch, which would allow you to separate them in an
analysis.

I gather something like this was done with old recordings of
 where they filtered out everything but the voice and
recorded a hi-fi stereo backing for re-issue. Quite a good trick,
but IMO still not as hard as a computer recognizing the words.

From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia

... A thing well said will be wit in all languages. - John Dryden
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