computer assist write/play music

Kathleen Teahen

New member
Good morning, I am a member of a choral society in a small farming community in Canada. I am looking for an application that will allow me to input music and have it play back what has been written.

If you know of such an application, I would be delighted to hear about it.

Thank you.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Hallo Kathleen and welcome to the forum.

I am sorry I can not help with this problem but you are sure to find someone here who can

teddy
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Hi Kathleen, there are a number of applications to do this, at various levels of cost and complexity.

When you say "input music" are you referring to a score or to say an MP3, WAV or MIDI file?

A recent addition is a free one, Musescore, not used it so can't comment

http://musescore.org/

Others include Sibelius, Finalé, & Noteworthy,

The following site is a review of features of the "top ten", don't know how they judge that, so many different feature/price mixes.

http://music-notation-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

I use Finalé Songwriter, (upgraded from Finalé Notepad.)

http://www.finalemusic.com/default.aspx

Others here use some of the other apps.
 

Krummhorn

Administrator
Staff member
ADMINISTRATOR
Hi Kathleen,

Mike mentions Noteworthy Composer above. I can vouch for this particular application as I have been using it for the past 7 years. For my initial investment of $39 (USD) and the upgrade this year to the newest version, $10 (USD), this program does satisfies all my needs for composing/editing/engraving, and being able to import midi files and converting those to score.

Sibelius and Finale are very excellent apps ... it depends on what one's needs are.
 

Dorsetmike

Member
I'm now hunting for a free (or very cheap),WAV and/or MP3 to MIDI converter.

Getting a bit hacked off with "full featured free trial" versions that only allow you to save about 10 or 15 seconds, how the heck can you evaluate on such a short clip?
 

Krummhorn

Administrator
Staff member
ADMINISTRATOR
Mike ... check out NCH site.
It's located in Australia and I use (and bought the licensed copy) for several apps.
I think the freebees are pretty fully functional.
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Hi Lars, their app will cope with MIDI to MP3 or WAV, but not the other way, so far about the only half decent wav/MP3 to MIDI is Intelliscore, at $99 or $139, depenmding which version you want.

I did find one freeby, converted an 8 minute track, the resultant MIDI is hardly recognisable as the same piece, it will probably take at least a day to edit it to a somewhere near recognisable work.

(Mind you it could probably generate some good variations on La Follia.)
 
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