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Thread #113251 Message #2571486
Posted By: dick greenhaus
19-Feb-09 - 11:32 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Scan & transpose sheet music
Subject: RE: Tech: Scan & transpose sheet music
No, I'm not asking the question. Perhaps I can answer it, though--
there's a free demo of a program called SMARTSCORE by Musitek (look for Musitek on Google) which seems to do what's requested. The demo won't permit you to save your results, but it should allow you to find out if it fits your needs. I just tried it--haven't worked with it, but it seems to scan multiple lines of a score and transpose into any other key.
on a related issue, though, I could use help. I have some 4800 tunes written in SongWright format. There are several programs--ABCMUS, Noteworthy Composer, MusicEase--that will allow me to convert to ABC format. SongWright, in the version I have, won't support sound cards, so I'd like to change over to ABC which seems to be pretty universal and which, unlike MIDI, lets me synchronize text with music.
My problem is that I don't know how to convert these files other than by one-at-a-time conversion, which I don't wish to undertake. In the old days of DOS, this would be a simple batch file job. Can anyone tell me how to do it in Windows?