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Scanners

I'm a flute player and in the band I play in don't have music
for flutes, so I have to transpose Bb charts to concert music. I have a scanner and I want to know if there's a way to scanned sheet music into NWC that's not from a midi format. If so please tell me how this can be done. It will
save me a lot of time trying to transpose large parts.

Thank you
John

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Reply #1 –
!http:/www.musitek.com pianoscan (the cheap version) should do it. They have a demo - try it - it is not great but somewhere between good and better. much editing will remain.

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Reply #3 –
Also see https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=454 and https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=391 for further information.

A general point. Recently I've noticed a lot of queries which duplicate earlier
discussions, sometimes only a few threads before. Perhaps newcomers haven't cottoned
on to the off-line forum - it's certainly worth downloading and studying at leisure.
Granted that it isn't available for Windows 3.x users - perhaps such a version could
be made available(?), but failing that, a quick look at the forum every couple of days
keeps one up to date.

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Reply #4 –
John, As suggedted by Peter (above) msg#555 and msg #485,discuss some of the experiences with scan software. You mentioned you are needing to trasnpose Bb parts (clarinet,trumpet,tenor sax,Bb euphonium(probably not for flute)), all these band parts are single notes,single staff. It might,as I have found to play these into NWC directly with your MIDI keyboard. If this is not available, then direct input to NWC (again single note,single staff) is so fast and accurate that this might be your best bet. It is for certain that after scanning,some editing will be required, and after MIDI input to NWC, some additional editing will be required( ie. 1/8 notr triplets). I hane not yet tried 'pianoscan', but I discussed 'MIDISCAN' in msg #485.

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Pianoscan is Midiscan for a 2 staff system without Lime for 99 vice 299 US$.

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Reply #6 –
Drake, Yes, thank you.
I just (past 2 hours) downloaded the trial version of MIDISCAN, and scanned in the same music score that I used some time ago as discussed in msg#485. The results were not much different. I also printed (on Epson color 800 printer -- excellent for music print) one of the sample files provided and then scanned it back into MIDISCAN and guess what - the results again were not very exciting.
here are some of the obvious problems:
no slur lines; no staccato(.)above notes; no accent(>) above notes; no triplet __3__ indications; sone note values changed; it even recognized the Bass Clef as a Alto or Tenor Clef(not sure which); no dynamics(p,pp,ff) recognized, etc. In all cases, the scan as viewed in MIDISCAN looked perfect, but the recognition phase is where excessive editing would be necessary. I would encourage anyone interested in scanning to download the trial version (2.5) and give it a try; it is quite fast and the download is fast.

Have fun,
Don Ruckman ruckdr@jps.net

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Reply #7 –
Just thought I'd mention Capella-scan again. It can be downloaded from http://www.softpart.co.uk
(file size 285 K so the download takes only a few minutes). Although it originates in Germany, all
the files are in English, so no problem there. I believe the price is around UK £75.00, and the main
Capella program isn't essential since there is a free MIDI export add-on available. I've only tried
the demo version (which has the save disabled), and not in depth, but the recognition seems pretty
good - definitely worth a look.

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Re: (http:/www.musitek.com)

I have their better version, and would agree that while it's a somewhat neat little program, I don't think it's worth the price, and frankly, by the time you finish cleaning up the scan it's almost as much trouble as transcribing the piece by hand (which I still do most of the time.) Also -- it doesn't work with Windows NT, if that's an issue (which it is for me -- I have to run it on my old 486 system which I set up with Win 95 just to run that one application.)