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Author: John Stackpole
Date: 2005-05-09 11:22
Can any of the major PC music programs - Finale, Sibelius, etc. - or minor ones, for that matter, be "taught" (via a setting) to NOT attempt to generate sounds.
I have an old PC (Windows 98 vintage) without any sound hardware (and no interest in adding it - $$$) but I would like to use the codes' other features - transposing, in particular. One I D/Led (Finale-?) had no "No Sound" switch (that I could find) and issued lots of error messages. Then quit, or locked up.
(I know I should learn to transpose, and I will, I will. But for now...)
TIA
JDS
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-05-09 19:40
I'm pretty sure Mozart (www.mozart.co.uk) will do what you want.
You can tell it whether or not you want it to echo each note you key in. (View menu | MIDI out connection)
If you tell it to playback, it will playback regardless of this setting, but presumably you won't try to do that.
I use Mozart on Windows 98 SE and it works fine, though I haven't tried this particular feature.
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2005-05-09 23:28
John, I also have put off learning to transpose. Now at 79 I just downloaded the free evaluation copy of Mozart 2005 and scanned the 103 page PDF manual. It seems to me, at my age, it would be quicker to learn to transpose than to try to sort through all that lot.
Best of luck. Go with God!
Bob A
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-05-10 08:48
I manage to use Mozart just fine without reading the manual!
It has a few bugs and limitations, but mostly does what I want.
The major issue I have with it is lack of compatibility with other music programs, coupled with the fact that it is Windows-only. I am likely to change to Mac at some stage, and will need to learn new software (Finale, probably) and re-input all my Mozart files.
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Author: John Stackpole
Date: 2005-05-10 12:40
The dumb Mozart code (acoustically "dumb", not mentally) worked just fine on my soundless PC. Thanks for pointing me to it.
There does seem to be a bit of a learning curve, at least for the fine points, but I clicked in a few notes just by intuition (and experience with how PC codes sort of work in general), found and clicked on "Transpose", and there the new notes were, ready to play along with the piano!
I even clicked the playback option - living dangerously - and the code just ignored me - didn't complain about the lack of sound hardware - and kept on going.
But I really really will learn to transpose in my head on the fly (one of these days....)
JDS
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