Re: scanning music and transposing

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Am 2006-01-15 um 19:46 schrieb David Rogers:
> > I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used  
> > Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've  
> > googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing this yet. Any  
> > guidance is appreciated.
>
> OK, so you want to transpose this piece. You scan the music, but  
> what do you want to do next?
>
> You'll still have to type the notes into Lilypond by hand. There is  
> no software anywhere that does a decent job of reading scanned  
> scores. (I don't even think there's software that does a bad job!)  
> The available technology is too primitive.

Oh, there are some programs around that claim to be able to scan &  
recognize sheet music; the cheapest I know of is OMeR by Myriad:
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/omer.htm
It's more a plugin for Harmony Assistant. I don't use it, even if I  
registered my copy...

VivaldiScan (a version of SharpEye) runs only on old Macs:
http://www.vivaldistudio.com/Eng/VivaldiScan.asp

PhotoScore is also available for MacOS X:
http://www.neuratron.com/photoscore.htm
(PhotoScore is a relative of Sibelius)

So is SmartScore:
http://www.musitek.com/smartscre.html

Anyway you would need to go via MIDI and midi2ly; possibly also via  
MusicXML.

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