Best software to scan printed music and spit out midi

[contrary]

Hello ,

I've been researching this , and so far there seems to be the finale and sibleus packages ( finale print music requires an upgrade cost to get the full scanning package ...) There are lots of lesser known companies that offer something like this , but I've never heard of them.



I have several melodic theory books that didn't come with a CD and I would really like to be able to scan the staff from them and put the midi into a GM synth so I can add the audio component as I read about the theory ....


Any tips or input is greatly appreciated !!!!!

[coquillo]

Any tips or input is greatly appreciated !!!!!

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With the programs I've tried it's quicker to just enter the notes than scan and correct.

[tommy_d]

Hello ,

I've been researching this , and so far there seems to be the finale and sibleus packages <snip>

Sibelius is far and away the best notation app out there. And that's not just MHO. Once upon a time it had serious competition - most notably from Finale - but these days it's way out in front. It will do what you're asking (assuming you have a scanner, of course!) but it will also do much more. Sibelius has been gradually eroding the distinction between a notation app and a DAW for a while now, and it now hosts VSTis and suports ReWire. It can also create a score from audio(!): you sing/play a monophonic line into Sibelius, and out come the dots. It even comes with built-in snippets of music: Ideas Hub has (I think) a couple of thousand little sketches in a wide variety of styles.

If you want/need to use dots and the scoring facilities of your DAW aren't sufficient, Sibelius is the way to go (I'm kind of a fanboi...can you tell )

[Meffy]

Sibelius is great for the notation side, but for scanning nothing beats SmartScore from Musitek.

[contrary]

Thanks guys .

The musitek is a little expensive unless you go for the neutered versions or the midi export only version ...... I did some research and both finale and sillybus ( whole enchilada versions $$$$$$$ ) even come with "lite" scanning and if you want the best scans you have to pay a few hundred more to upgrade it!!!


Right now I thinking silibus one and the" pro "scanner upgrade so I can always buck up for the full silibus If I think I need it in the future

( which I don't think I do right now)


Thanks again!

[Ogg Vorbis]

I have Sibelius and I've experimented with the scanning thing.

I think it might be one of those things that by the time you warmed up your scanner, booted the program, lined up and isolated the musical examples, chose the settings, balanced the book on the scanner platten with one elbow while pressing the scan icon, waited for it it scan, realize that it was upside down, re-scan, wait for it to analyze, correct the errors, save it to the file, select the passage, export it to MIDI, opened your DAW, imported the MIDI, selected the instruments, adjusted the tempo, got the levels correct, recorded the MIDI as an audio file, export the audio file to your folder as .WAV or .AIFF...

...you might as well plink through the notes on a piano one-by-one which will help you better internalize the musical concepts.

Just a thought!

[contrary]

I have Sibelius and I've experimented with the scanning thing.

I think it might be one of those things that by the time you warmed up your scanner, booted the program, lined up and isolated the musical examples, chose the settings, balanced the book on the scanner platten with one elbow while pressing the scan icon, waited for it it scan, realize that it was upside down, re-scan, wait for it to analyze, correct the errors, save it to the file, select the passage, export it to MIDI, opened your DAW, imported the MIDI, selected the instruments, adjusted the tempo, got the levels correct, recorded the MIDI as an audio file, export the audio file to your folder as .WAV or .AIFF...

...you might as well plink through the notes on a piano one-by-one which will help you better internalize the musical concepts.

Just a thought!

I very much appreciate this advice ; I think all the techno gizmos are making us forget what a joy actually playing is . I'm along time guitar player who is more interested in composition nowdays and am taking piano lessons because it is so much better an instrument to study theory , and ;I find that jumping between both instruments is pretty cool for inspiration as they make you come up with different approaches as you try to operate the dam things competently !

Any how , I have small ones around here so I need to have many options and so I want to be able to just read and listen to examples and think them over sometimes.


Thanks again for chiming in !!!




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[EyeCloud]

Looks like this hasn’t been updated in a long time, so wondered if anyone has a recommendations for something that can scan images or use a phone camera to either create MIDI or MusicXML files.

I would really like to avoid anything that involves a subscription, so if there’s an option to buy something outright that would be ideal.

Free would be even better, but not holding out hope for that.