Klarinet Archive - Posting 000126.txt from 2011/01

From: Tom Puwalski <tski1128@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music scanning and transcription software?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:13:43 -0500

The Neurotron pro version works great. The "lite" version I found didn't work at all, and I have to say I would not have bought the pro version had I judged it's potential on the lite. A friend demoed it and I could see just how it worked. You will have some correcting to do, but editing is just part of arranging.

The pro version just doesn't have more features. It was far more accurate reading the same scan of music.

Tom Puwalski, one of the lucky people at Namm 2011 who has gotten to play the amazing new Moba and Backun clarinets

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On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:11 AM, "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com> wrote:

> Matt
>
> I have done quite a bit of the same thing. Scanning and reading parts does
> need one of the high end programmes, in my view. But if you are not a
> professional musician, you may be able to afford it!!
>
> I use Neurotron Photoscore, the pro version, together with Sibelius. It has
> been getting better over the years and is certainly far quicker than hand
> copying. It is pretty much 100% accurate for the notes, 90% for accidentals
> and not all that accurate for clefs. So yes you do need to hand edit and
> correct. Best results are often obtained with input direct from PDF (which
> also needs a piece of freeware plugin for Windows systems), and free PDF
> files of many public domain works, parts included, are on IMSLP.
>
> You should also look at the Rosewood Editions website, which has quite a lot
> of stuff for mixed wind/piano/strings.
>
> Keith
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: matthew dineen [mailto:mgnat45@-----.com]
> Sent: 15 January 2011 04:55
> To: Woodwind Klarinet
> Subject: [kl] Music scanning and transcription software?
>
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I play with amateur groups that have piano cello and sometimes violin plus
> me. There's not as much written for clarinet in chamber pieces in the 18th
> and 19th Century as we all might like, and we might just like to play pieces
> not originally written for our instrument. (Plus pieces written for the A
> clarinet, not the B Flat, for those of us who only have the B Flat).
>
> And there are pieces written for other instruments in more or less the same
> range - viola, flute, oboe, basset horn, even violin, I think.
>
> It would be great if there were transcriptions of these parts for clarinet
> easily available, but they seem hard to come by.
>
> I've read that to get around the problem many clarinetists have become adept
> at transposing at sight concert pitch parts, or can easily transpose them in
> writing. For me, an amateur, that's too labor-intensive and likely to result
> in many errors.
>
> I've heard that there are music softwares, SmartScore in particular, that
> can be used to scan in the viola, flute etc. part, then export it to
> Sibelius or Finale to transpose it with the click of a mouse to "our" B
> flat.
>
> I know this is the lazy musician's out, but I have a full-time job (not
> music), and family. So, has anyone had experience, good or bad, with these
> music scanning plus transposition softwares?
>
> I know that "office" software for character recognition (OCR) is not yet
> 100%. How accurate is the music scanning and transposition software, and is
> it yet worth the considerable investment?
>
> Or does anyone have any other ideas for dealing with the situation?
>
> Thank you so much, in advance,for your thoughts.
>
> Matt Dineen (NYC)
>
>
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