Klarinet Archive - Posting 000692.txt from 1997/03

From: Nathaniel Johnson <clarinat@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: More music notation...
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:02:29 -0500

What you are looking for is a pitch-to-MIDI converter. I do not know
whether you can get software that does this on your computer, but I know
that you can buy a separate component that does this. It is not a piece
of computer equipment, meaning that it doesn't need to be hooked up to a
computer to function (like a printer for instance would need to be). It
could, however, be attached to a computer and a notation program. Thus
you could play a line on your clarinet and have it print on the screen.
However, as someone posted earlier, it would be next to impossible to use
this in conjunction with recorded music. There are simply too many
different lines going on at the same time, and the computer would not, I
imagine, be able to distiguish between them. You could theoretically
"lift" a solo unaccompanied piece, but the notes may go by too quickly.
I've never tried this. The only time I've even seen this device, in
fact, is when a classmate used it to accompany himself in parallel fifths
in a jazz performance.

On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:05:16 -0800 ERNESTO REIDES <reides@-----.NET>
writes:
>Hi to everyone:
>
>A few days ago I just say to mi teacher about the purchase of the
>Music Time de Luxe and sorpressively he ask tome if I know some
>software that can take music that was recorded on C.D. for example and
> convert that music into a file that MUS or another extension for open
>in a notation program software.
> Mi question is : anybody knows somthing like that?
>
> Thank you all.
> Ernesto
>