The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37657   Message #912903
Posted By: JohnInKansas
18-Mar-03 - 04:48 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Software: Sharpeye
Subject: RE: Software: Sharpeye
As noted in previous thread(s) (possibly the one linked above) I got a mic input converter program with an old (make that very old) CakeWalk "Home Studio" program that came with a cheap keyboard. We tried "mic-ing" mando and lap dulcimer, and singing, (separately) into it, and concluded that either it didn't work or our microphone wasn't "strong enough."

Almost anything you're likely to find that accepts microphone input for notation purposes will probably make use of midi as an "intermediate" format, and since midi can record pitch "bends" and tempo "variations," it's likely that most of us will produce pretty "maggoty" scores even on the best of such conversion software.

Sibelius does include a scan-to-notation utility; but I'm not sure what it's "noise-to-notation" capability is, if any. The people who make the scanner software package(s) for Sibelius also make a "Scan-to-MIDI" program that can be downloaded for free trial - but I believe it's about $149 US to be able to save the output.

John