![]() ![]() This matters if you want to use a software program to transpose for you, or if you want to do a computer-playback so you can hear how it sounds (or maybe do a slow playback etc). ![]() ![]() from a book or a paper printout of a digital score you purchased) and you scan that and get a PDF file (or a jpeg), it's basically like an image with no information, and a software program can't interpret it as musical notation. ![]() (forgive me if this explanation is too detailed etc) Pianomise, here's the thing about scans we make ourselves. Given that, does anyone have any recommendations? I'm guessing that the freeware available doesn't quite do all that, but maybe I'm wrong? What about various lite version, like the Sibelius one mentioned above, or Finale Notepad, I think they don't do the OCR of a score you scan in yourself, is that right? Also, I'd like to be able to have playback of any score I created. Obviously, I want to make piano scores, and maybe add lyrics although that's not a top priority. And since I don't have a MIDI device, be able to do input from a regular computer keyboard. I'm interested in being able to take a score that I scanned in, get it recognized as music, be able to transpose it, edit/add notes etc. So, it looks like SharpEye is $170, that seems a bit much! From what I can tell, SmartScore and Finale (which both have versions under US$100) will let you take a scanned score and convert it to musicOCR or MusicXML, which then allows the software to recognize the file as a musical score (otherwise, a score that you scanned yourself is not recognized as music and you can't edit it, transpose it etc.) This is a timely thread, I was just searching around thinking about what software I might get. ![]()
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