Klarinet Archive - Posting 000980.txt from 1999/11

From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Scanning
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 02:52:02 -0500

Dave Sandusky wrote, in part:

> > I was wondering what people on the
> > list use to scan music into a format
> > readable by Finale Allegro.

Karl Krelove replied, in part:

> Use MidiScan or SmartScore (both by
> Musitek) to convert the scan to a MIDI
> (.MID) file, then import the MIDI file into
> Allegro. Musitek recommends 300-400
> dpi. You will need to do a fair amount of
> touching up in MidiScan or SmartScore
> before importing to Allegro.

I'd say that "a fair amount of touching up" is a vast understatement!

I bought MidiScan and three or four upgrades, each of which was supposed to
eliminate all the "touching up" that is required with this over-hyped
program. But even after spending several hundred dollars, I can still
enter a piece into ENCORE note by note with a mouse far faster than I can
scan it in MidiScan, take all the necessary time to clean up the scanned
file, convert it to midi and then import it into ENCORE.

I now plan to buy Sibelius (if Santa's Elves haven't built me a copy), and
it apparently has some sort of "import scanned files" capability. I don't
know a lot of the details, but the Sibelius website at
http://www.sibelius.com can probably provide lots of info.

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA

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