Klarinet Archive - Posting 000529.txt from 1998/05

From: oliver@-----.EDU (Oliver Seely)
Subj: Re: [kl] Notation Programs and Midi
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:20:49 -0400

At the risk of irritating the uninterested KLARINETists, I'll reply to Carl
on this forum.

MIDISCAN will scan up to 24 pages at a time and convert the score first to
a proprietary .MND format and then will output to a MIDI file. A VERY clean
score will yield results that require perhaps a 1% clean-up before going
to a MIDI format. BUT, (and this is a big but), where a piano is playing,
say, four eighth notes and a half note (or two quarter notes) simultaneously,
on the same staff,
MIDISCAN catches that and puts it in correctly to the .MND file and even
the MIDI file (I think -- I'm not sure), but the MIDI file never imports
correctly into
Finale; the half or quarter notes end up as eighths; a second cleanup is
required.

The MIDISCAN address is

Musitek
410 Bryant Cir., Suite K
Ojai, CA 93023
800-676-8055
805-646-8051
FAX: 805-646-8099
http://www.musitek.com
email: chrisn@-----.net

Finale allows one to enter music via a MIDI "wind controller," an instrument
manufactured by several companies, including Yamaha. A number of other
music notation programs allow that as well, I believe.

Good luck,

Oliver

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