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General Discussion / Output to on-screen Keyboard while score plays in NWC?
Hello,

Apologies if this is not the right place to post (or the right product!!).  I did do a search but didn't find an answer to the following.

I am trying to learn to read music notation.  I have this notion that if I can hand-enter sheet music in NWC, then play it back to an on-screen virtual keyboard, I can see the note in the notation play at the same time as the key on the on-screen keyboard, and then I can make the visual-physical-mental map between the sound, the notation, and the key(s) to press.  As (mostly) a guitar player, I don't have all the scales and patterns on the keyboard ingrained and this seemed like a good approach -- especially since I have books and books of sheet music that I can transcribe into NWC.  That may seem tedious but I think if I get good at that I can further cement the link between the notation, the sound, and the physical action.

What I'm really looking for is a version of the old Deluxe Music Construction Set from the Amiga days, but there doesn't seem to be anything like that for the PC. 

In my searching, NWC is by far the nicest tool for entering notation -- the keyboard (PC keyboard I mean) support is FANTASTIC!  But I simply can't find a combination of a good notation program and a playback via onscreen (piano) keyboard feature in one program.

Possibly I can get an onscreen keyboard midi (instrument) and use that to play back, but I am not sure if that would even work.

Anyway, suggestions about how to use NWC in this manner, or other things to try, would be most welcome.

Thanks for reading, and thanks very much in advance for any suggestions you may have.

-C