Transferring Notes from real keyboard to sheet music...
**Sorry for my lack of knowledge on the subject**
I was watching a video of youtube that was showing a guy making music on Finale. Basically, he played notes on his keyboard and they appeared in perfect notation on screen (displayed notes, duration, rests, and pretty much every single detail about what he played). I was wondering what this is called and is it available on musescore? Also, is it possible to use a guitar instead of a keyboard? Thanks for any help/info
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Finale has a feature that *attempts* to do this. In the real world world it works only 1/10th as well as the demos :-). MuseScore has no such feature built in, but if you use a sequencer program to record your keybaord playing to a standard MIDI file, you can then import that MIDI file into MuseScore. It is unlikely to be mistaken for "perfect notation", but in some cases, it can be a little easy than entering the notes one by one. In a lot cases it is not. MuseScore 2.0 Beta 1 deals with MIDI files much better, so you should get better results, but still not perfect. And if you do try it, do be aware that it is still just a "beta" release.
Creating Music with Finale: http://youtu.be/51tdx0Xz3Ok
In reply to Link for the video by mikegd00
Well, the first thing I see is that the drum set is selected from a pre-existing set up. he did not "magically" play it in in real time. He did not demonstrate how the drum set was built.
The next thing I see is the bass line that is represented by the notation does not actually appear to be what he played although its pretty close. I suspect that what first appeared to me to be 1/2 notes in the 1st bar, for example, may just be coloured to show that what he is playing is out of the instruments range. The sustained note in bar 3 is represented by an 8th and should be tied to a half note, which isn't there. The bar itself lacks completeness. There was no demonstration as to the massaging required to turn the bass into usable notation
Finale has obviously incorporated a sequencer, and since the phrases are simple, just duple rhythm. quantization is easily set to get a fairly good representation.
The same thing can be done with MS except MS does not have an incorporated sequencer. They are easy to find. So, you can play the "music" into a sequencer, quantized, and then export that file into MS as MIDI or XML.
I am not sure just how accurate MS is at interpreting those MIDI/XML files.
I would be interested to see how Finale does when presented with a more complex piece such as one containing tuplets. Of course then it also would demand much greater precision in playing, and I'd like to see that.
That's as far as I got really, although he demonstrated some computer based harmonic interpolation. He did not demonstrate how he set the harmonic boundaries so that it could be processed accurately by the computer.
In my experience (although I have none with Finale for many years) is that it all looks so simple, but its not, unless you have very limited expectations as to the music that you will produce.
At any rate, that's my quick impression. :)
Regards,
EDIT: On further examination I see the harmonic structure is determined by the much more complex than single-line, piano part. I sure would like to see how he entered that.