Klarinet Archive - Posting 000223.txt from 1997/10

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: MIDI
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:55:04 -0400

At 08:15 PM 10/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I am looking for a music editing program in which I can play a CD or
>something and record it into the computer (and then I could see and alter
>the parts). The reason that I want this is that I have a recording of
>something that a friend of mine composed and would like to have written out
>parts. I know that there are programs like this, but do not know what they
>are called. Thanks for all your help.
>
>Ryan Lowe
>
I can't help wondering why, if the composer is a friend, you couldn't ask
him for a set of parts or even a score from which you could input parts
directly to a notation program. What you're asking about seems to me to be
illegal without permission of the copyright holder. With permission there
are much more direct ways of getting at the music. If the music is
published, whether or not you know the composer personally, what you are
trying to do deprives people of income they may be entitled to (you said
this is recorded on a CD, which doesn't sound like a home-recorded tape of
an amateur performance).

Just a thought.
Karl