Re: [Harp-L] Transposing music

[MundHarp@xxxxxxx]

In my opinion,
"Sibelius" is the very best music transcribing software available. Written  
by musicians for musicians.
I completely, 100% endorse it! Originally  10 or 15 years ago,the  program 
was written to run on the now defunct "Acorn" computer system. At that  time, 
the Royal Collage of Music, here in London, bought a complete "Acorn"  computer 
system just so that they could use Sibeius!  Now it runs  fine on PC. There is 
an alternative version available for Mac OS X and  later.
It prints perfect scores! I've never seen such a wonderful music score  
producing and music playing program.
But more than that, it plays back perfectly whatever you choose to  write!
It needs some knowledge of "the dots" to get the maximum out of it, but in  
my opinion, Sibelius is the best software available for writing music, and if  
you wish, simply playing  back to you what you have written.
IT IS FANTASTIC.
As far as I know, Sibelius is probably the very best music software program  
available. I is certainly THE notation program used and recommended by all of  
the British music colleges. As "MS Word" has taken over word processing 
across  the word, "Sibelius" seems to have done much the same with music notation.
This is my personal opinion, from using "Sibelius" for more than 10  years.  
I have nothing to do with the "Sibelius" company,, other than being  a VERY 
satisfied customer. I expect the latest version of their software is even  
better than the program I am still using.
John Walden
London
England
 
 
 
In a message dated 18/12/2008 20:41:59 GMT Standard Time, EDAmico@xxxxxxx  
writes:

Finale  can do it fine. The Allegro version is about 180 US dollars.
It has a soft  synth and can convert from midi to digital audio.
For an example go  to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU8l91psJUw&feature=channel_page

Diggs

>>>  "Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/18/08 2:17 PM  >>>
Sibelius can be used to transpose sheet music and is useful  for people
like 
me who struggle with reading because it plays things  back.  it's
expensive 
to buy though, the full professional version  is over £500 in english
money 
although you can get a student edition  for £115ish.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom  Halchak" <thalchak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:  <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:31  PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Transposing music


>I wonder if I can get  some advice with regard to transposing a song
from a
> recording to  tabs or even sheet music.  Is there a software product
> available  that will enable me to play the music through it and have
it
>  translated?  I have downloaded an inexpensive software  package
called
> harping from a website called  http://www.harpingmidi.com/ .  It is a

> pretty
> neat  little package that lets you actually see (and hear) what notes
are
>  being played on your harmonica and you can compare that to a piano 
>  keyboard.
> Since I have always played by ear, it is something of a  revelation to
me.
>
>
>
> That said, I would love  to figure out an easier way to learn the
songs 
> that
> I am  listening to (other than playing the recording over and over
and
>  emulating the sounds I hear).  I have accumulated a pretty  fair
collection
> of harmonica music and would like to use whatever  technology is
available 
> to
> me in order to make the process  easier.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly  appreciated.
>
>
>
> Tom Halchak
>
>  Clearwater, FL
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