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Author: csinc
Date: 2011-05-13 03:04
Hello,
I have many books of music that have piano accompaniment, but I have no piano player in my house to play for me. I was wondering if anyone knew a service that convert the piano parts to MIDI so my computer could accompany me.
I have tried some software that takes scanned music pages and converts to MIDI but the accuracy has not been so good.
Thank you.
-Adam
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Author: mrn
Date: 2011-05-13 10:33
Just this week I used Lilypond (the free music typesetting program) to make a MIDI file of a piano part (my daughter's singing Ray Charles' "Fifty Nifty United States" in her school talent show and needed an accompaniment recording). Although it's designed primarily for making printed scores, it can also make MIDIs. The only catch is that you have to learn how to enter scores in with it.
The input is text-based, so it takes a little bit of effort to get the hang of, but it has a decent-enough manual and "snippets" document (with example code).
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-05-13 11:50
If you prefer a graphical solution, consider MuseScore - it's free (as in beer), and it imports and exports in various formats, including MIDI.
(I use both, but to be frank, I'm faster with Lily..., and its PDF output is simply outstanding)
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Ben
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2011-05-13 16:13
I've done this using Finale, and I'm sure it can be done as well by Sibelius. The programs are a little pricey for most people who have no real need of high-powered notation software, but might still be cheaper than hiring a commercial service to do essentially the same thing. The main advantage over less expensive software (Lilypond, MuseScore) is that you wouldn't need to enter the part by hand, either graphically or textually.
You'd need to scan the music first. The scanning OCR software included in Finale or Sibelius might be enough, although you'd get more complete results with a stand-alone music scanning program (an additional expense). After you import the result into Finale/Sibelius, you can clean up any outright errors, realizing that things like incorrect staff assignments, inappropriate enharmonic spellings, etc. won't have any effect on the MIDI result. Then simply save the result to a MIDI file. As a MIDI, the accompaniment won't follow you, but Finale could produce a SmartMusic file that, used with SmartMusic itself, would.
Karl
Post Edited (2011-05-13 22:01)
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Author: rgames
Date: 2011-05-15 15:43
I've tried a number of scanning programs and none works particularly well.
The most accurate and cheapest method is to hire a piano player to record the MIDI for you.
rgames
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Author: chris moffatt
Date: 2011-05-15 23:01
I agree with R Ames - find a piano player to record what you want. That said unless you are recording yourself to another MIDI track in the same file so you can do all the cute MIDI stuff like reassigning tracks, voices etc. why not just record to an audio file and play that back as accompaniment? there's free software for that. That way you won't get the occasional surprise from the MIDI quantization feature
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