I prefer Sibelius over Finale too, and both are top quality (and price) programs. But give a chance also to MuseScore. Surely lower level, but free, open...
While I've never worked with Notation Composer, I have used Sibelius ... It depends on the midi file itself, (complexity, quantized or not, etc) and the...
Try MuseScore. It's free and does the job. Plus it is evolving well. I have Finale and prefer it over Sibelius but that may be because of long use. However,...
Try MuseScore. It's free and does the job. Plus it is evolving well. I have Finale and prefer it over Sibelius but that may be because of long use. However,...
... There's some to look at here http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/music+notation I've looked into the subject a little. My honest advice would...
I've been using aAbc and tunepal with ABC format, but there awesome drawbacks with them. aAbc doesn't break to a new staff when should, and tunepal requires...
Hi Laurence, Iv'e been away and hence the delay; I will be using a specialist Microsoft refurbisher to install Window 7 on my existing computer - I should have...
Hi Richard, Your suggestion is certainly a useful tip; at the moment of course, both my E-MU and the music source are 'mixed' in the Creative Live audio card...
I have been using Finale for longer than Transcribe!with all it's sometimes unbelievable irritations like not powering up a music board in the background as in...
Hi Bob, Although I have said I do not think I can justify changing to Sibelius, can you tell me whether or not, it would power up my E-MU keyboard and if so,...
T! doesn't do any midi output. As for midi input, if you are sending midi input to Sibelius then it would be a good idea to turn off T!'s midi input (File menu...
... Start with what you know and can do best. In my opinion harmony is several melodies on top of a bass line. So you are lucky in that you can interpret...
... In my college days, aural training included taking down a few bars of 4-part harmony, specially designed to be atonal. Surprisingly often, a sequence ...
... Hey Hugh, I need to get in touch with you because I am like you I hear the chord qualities or vertical stacks better than the tune often. My mind processes...
Does anyone in this group use sight singing to check their transcriptions? Is it easier for you to transcribe rhythms or pitches? Can anyone here transcribe in...
... to describe Jazz musicians or any kind of musician other than "classical musicians" which is really a period in "serious music". Altered and extended ...
Hey, The script below is run via <transcribe executable name> exp.xscscpt and if the directory ./bt is empty the file exp.wav is properly created and therein...
Hello Bobo, I've just tried your script here (on Linux Ubuntu 10.04, T! 8.21.1) more than once with no problem. You're saying that the folder bt disappears? ...
Hey, Have not tried on Linux. Sorry I should have mentioned os is OSX 10.6.7. I do have license for both Linux and OSX but this one has to run on OSX. It is...
I've just tried it on OS 10.5.8 and 10.8 preview, with no trouble (I don't have a 10.6 machine). You could try updating to 10.6.8 which I think is the latest...
Hey, I think you've hit it. I use mkdir to create the directory, from within a python script. In doing so there are only . and .. within the directory. Try...
We use "unlink" as you would expect. Maybe we have run into some obscure quirk of Mac OS. Anyway my guess is that if you either create the folder using Finder,...
Zow. Well, thanks for all the info/follow up. Now that I know unlink is in there (versus some NSFileManagerFromTheNinthCircle call) I think I'll try a simple...
Hello cts20782, In fact it is in the FAQ - please see the FAQ at http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/faq.html in section 3: "Using Transcribe!", query 56. ...
Hey. regarding the transcribe! software.... how do I go about saving a selection or exporting a selection to wav/flac etc. I mean like you would do in Audacity...
