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From: mketch@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael D. Ketchen)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Looking for MIDI software to gen score
Keywords: MIDI
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Date: 15 Aug 89 17:04:08 GMT
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In article <209@bulus3.BMA.COM> haugen@bulus3.BMA.COM (John M. Haugen) writes:
>Our church has a rather talented music director who can sit down at his 
>keyboard and play original accompaniments to songs used in our service.  Is
>there any software that could use the MIDI interface on the keyboard to
>generate the musical score for the music being played?

Finale, by Coda, is the most powerful music transcription program on the
market.  Unfortunately, it is also the most expensive ($1000).  You can play
on the MIDI keyboard, and Finale will convert it into a quite accurate score.
Finale is available for the Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

For about the same price, you can get Performer (a sequencer) and Professional
Composer (a music scoring program), both by Mark of the Unicorn, for the
Macintosh.  You can play things into Performer, then use Composer to generate
the score.  Composer isn't quite as powerful at transcription, but you'll get
Performer, which is a first-rate sequencer, to boot.

- Mike
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