Klarinet Archive - Posting 000548.txt from 1997/03

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Message for Oliver
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:56:10 -0500

Simon,
I use PhotoFinish, an old version, with my scanner. The reason that I use
the old version is that for reasons that I don't completely understand,
Photofinish has a compression algorithm for .TIF files that puts a full page
of music scanned at 300 dpi into a file of 45-60 KBytes. Adobe Photo
Shop doesn't have the same algorithm. Their files end up being around
500 KBytes. Anyway. That's where I start. The Hummel quartet
for example. 48 pages total, 12 per instrument. Got all TIF files onto two
3.5" floppy disks. Did the scan at the university, took the two disks home
and loaded them into a subdirectory d:hummel

Then I used MIDISCAN 2.5 to start the interpretations. I finished the last
part of the last movement this morning. That gives me a .MND file.
My pages were reasonably clean, so the amount of "fixing up" I'll have to
do will be minimal. But it will be 3-4 hours for the whole thing very likely.

I'll then create a MIDI file of each part which will be imported into FINALE 3.0
and I'll create separate .MUS score files for each movement. I then do
one final pass to find errors that I didn't catch before. I still have problems
with the importation of MIDI files into Finale, particularly eighth notes
followed
by eighth rests which seem often to come out as quarter notes with no rests.
I have no idea why.

I print out the score and do a play-through in Finale. It is there that I find
bad harmony and fix it up. I also find more than a few places that were
either typos in the score that I scanned or harmonies not meant by the
composer! I have fun figuring out what sounds best on those. And sometimes
I just go ahead and change endings. Bouffil had two alternate endings to
one of his trios and I liked both of them so much I fixed the trio up to take
the simpler one and then the flamboyant one. It's delicious! Fernando's
rendition of Tico-tico just kind of faded out at the end in the MIDI file,
so I added an
ending which (I think anyway) is a bit of a kick. Too much Hollywood influence
on me I think. I'll put my modification of Fernando's Tico-tico up on my page
sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Anyway, it is at that point that I create the final MIDI file with instrument
assignments and ready for distribution. Write back if I haven't answered
everything you asked.

Oliver