music in midi format that I can print

Subject: music in midi format that I can print
From: Sharon
Date: 24 Jan 98 - 05:46 PM

I finally have my Musictime program installed and my midi computer hooked up. I'm sure this has been on a thread somewhere before, but what is a good source of folk music which can be printed in sheet music form?

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jan 98 - 06:00 PM

Sharon...ANY music can be printed if you have the right conversion programs....but if you want it ALREADY in sheetmusic format, this database is also (mostly) over here with sheet music instead of midis

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 24 Jan 98 - 07:25 PM

G'day,
I've just stolen this from a Joe Offer posting but if you want tunes e.g. jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes etc. try Richard Robinson's Tunebook.

If you want to print quality manuscript there are many MIDI programs that will do it from your MIDI file.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jan 98 - 07:44 PM

Or, try this one.
Sharon, I gather that your Musictime program will display and print MIDI files, right? Well, this link will give you lots of them. Some of the arrangements may be a bit corny, but I can't say that I'd do any better.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: Dan Mulligan
Date: 25 Jan 98 - 11:55 AM

Sharon , Here are a few of my favorite celtic MIDI sites. I use Noteworthy composer to view and arrange tablature. It is a great way to pick up new tunes and to learn them.I am interested in knowing how well Musictime works.

Dan Mulligan http://www.gandolf.com/ http://www.celticmusic.com/ http://www.reelmusic.com/ http://home.ican.net/~710011/december.htm http://www.netinfo.com.au/~pete/pete.index.html

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: sharon
Date: 25 Jan 98 - 06:00 PM

Thanks for your help. I found the sites alright. My problem is I don't know how to save the files either to my abc2win or to musictime. I tried saving one from Joe's site to musictime. Got message, could not save. Wrong type file. It was saving as html. Then Bill;s site asked, "save as abc file." I said OK. It ended up on my desktop...... Oh, if I only know what I'm doing....... Dan: about Musictime. I've been using it for a couple of years on my old computer. It works great. Of course I haven't done anything fancy with it. Just print score with words and chords for our local dulcimer society. It is possible to put tab in if you do it in the lyrics space.... I've enrolled in a Windows 95 class at our local adult education school......maybe I'll learn something about saving files...........

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jan 98 - 06:22 PM

Don't give up, Sharon. go back to The Folk Music MIDI Page. You can download MIDI files directly from the first page, from all those links that say "MIDI File." If you go over to the frames version of that site, the menu offers you HTML files to choose from. Click on the one you want, and a page with the lyrics will come up and the song will start to play. If you want to download the MIDI, click on the download link. You should probably set up a separate directory or "folder" for your MIDI files, so they don't get lost. Keep trying, and you'll figure it out. The only files you can play on your player are ones that end in MID, so watch for that. Good luck. Time to go watch the game. GO PACKERS!!!!
-Joe, former Wisconsinite-

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: sharon
Date: 25 Jan 98 - 08:18 PM

Oh, if it were only that easy. I don't even know how to create the folder to put it in. And if I did, I wouldn't know how to get it back out........... I'll try in a few weeks after a few sessions of the windows 95 class. You folks are so kind and helpful......... I am just so computer-illiterate...... but I am learning.

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: dulcimer
Date: 25 Jan 98 - 09:27 PM

Sharon, I create sheet music from midi in MusicTime Deluxe. I don't know that I do it in the most effective way, but here goes. I download midi files in the my sound file, Sound Blaster 16, as a .midi. I think you could probably put it in any file, just specific. I get a message which gives me the choice of "SAVE AS". Then I open up MT, go to "new: and type in the midi file name I want changed to sheet music. Beware that some tunes can have several staves. Sometimes you will have to delete those you don't want. I usually eliminate all but the melody line. If I am downloading an ABC,I usually do that to ABCMUS (via notebook or write,etc.). ABCMUS can convert to midi and saved in ABCMUS or I have the "SAVE AS" option. Then follow the above. The MIDITEXT program will do about the same thing and I have usually found the conversions in the MIDITEXT file itself. Hope this helps. Write me if you have any problems.

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From:
Date: 26 Jan 98 - 07:58 PM

Geeze, that is all too complicated... go to zdnet.com and get Noteworthy composer.

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: dulcimer
Date: 26 Jan 98 - 10:19 PM

I agree. but if Sharon has MusicTime,and has already make the investment, can we suggest an easier way to download and print music? I would certainly be open to simplication.

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: Sharon
Date: 26 Jan 98 - 10:41 PM

Thanks, Dulcimer. Until it gets a little simpler, I think I'll just grab my hammers and play a little music on the hammered dulcimer...........much more relaxing than attempting a "simple" process on the computer, which for me always ends up taking a few hours...............Now for a little Carrickfergus

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Jan 98 - 11:23 PM

Yeah, I'm afaid it doesn't matter what music program you use, Sharon - you have to learn about files. The best way to do that is to play with your computer until you mess things up royally a few times. Sooner or later, the frustration will force you to learn. It really isn't all that tough, but a lot of people give up before they figure that out. For that reason, we all have many friends with virtually-unused computers.
Sharon, as I understand it, your MusicTime program should work quite well, just as well as Noteworthy Composer. Don't give up. Once you get the hang of it, you'll find you can run most computer programs without even looking at the manual.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From: dulcimer
Date: 27 Jan 98 - 07:28 AM

Ok, Sharon, download midi file into MusicTime directly and go from there. I have win 3.1 so I get more messages and directions that win 95 (or so I have been told). I'm really bad about reading instruction fully and didn't find out about midi changing until the last few months, after I had owned MT for about a year. I agree with Joe. I have learned more by experimenting and having to redo (and reread the manual). By the by, for tunes I can't find on the net, I sit at my computer with MT and my dulcimer and tune source beside and write and tab it. So combine the three.

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From:
Date: 11 Oct 99 - 03:24 AM

I,m realy intrested in how this software works so I will download and see what Happens

Subject: RE: music in midi format that I can print
From:
Date: 11 Oct 99 - 03:26 AM