Musescore Apple mac and maybe a midi piano interface.
Please forgive my ignorance but I know nothing about music. I am an IT person, I cant play any instrument and I am tone deaf. So my wife is a musican who used to compose on her Roland piano (which saved to 3.5inch floppy disks) She has wanted sibelius for many years but we just couldnt afford it. Anyway I was wondering if musescore can do these functions,
Can it take music off the 3.5inch floppy (or via an input) and turn it into a score? I think sibelius can but we have a disconnect, my wife doesnt undertsand IT and I dont understand music/audio stuff.
She has a good quad core 16gb ram iMac desktop (I bought second hand). She had bought some hardware before she met me, a 2 channel to usb converter "black box, actually its gray and blue) a decade ago however it just didnt work and cost her a lot of money, like $1500 :( The Mac shop said "you just dont know how to use it, your problem"
So can I make this work or I am on the wrong track?
Also what sort of midi piano keyboard would work with a mac desktop (USB?) and this software? would I need anything else to get her going?
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Not sure, but I think the Roland stores sound samples on diskette, and you can't use those with MuseScore. You should be able to use it for midi input though.
If it is not a very old model, Roland usually saves its user files as "midi file" format. ( .mid). And floppies are in normal MS-DOS format. All you need to do is transfer 3.5 disks to any computer. (Not necessarily a Mac)
MuseScore can open ".mid" files.
If you want to record live-piano performance with computer (connecting with USB-MIDI interface), a basic sequencer (not a DAW) software is better. for ex. Sekaiju (Open source, free midi sequencer)
After you have saved your file (midi-file or xml) on your computer, you can open it with any note-editing software (like MuseScore).