Transposing Music Options

[Countertenor]

Could any one tell me what is the best computer programe for transposing sheet music? I would like to be able to scan the music into my computer and then transpose is this possible?

[fatar760]

There's so much tidying needs re-do after photoscore that, I usually find, it's just quicker to record it in yourself (on a program like Sibellius) and then transpose.

[linda.ff]

There's so much tidying needs re-do after photoscore that, I usually find, it's just quicker to record it in yourself (on a program like Sibellius) and then transpose.

I find Sibelius doesn't record well in live time from MIDI. The latency problems on most computers seem to make it hard to play along to the click and still get it displaying on the beat, and as for recording second voices while you can hear the first, and expecting them to coincide in the score, forget it.

Or have some of you managed to get round this?

It's a pity, becasue in its early days, I think Sibelius did do this properly, and even boated that it culd tell if you'd speeded up or slowed down.

[Tenor Viol]

There's so much tidying needs re-do after photoscore that, I usually find, it's just quicker to record it in yourself (on a program like Sibellius) and then transpose.

I find Sibelius doesn't record well in live time from MIDI. The latency problems on most computers seem to make it hard to play along to the click and still get it displaying on the beat, and as for recording second voices while you can hear the first, and expecting them to coincide in the score, forget it.

Or have some of you managed to get round this?

It's a pity, becasue in its early days, I think Sibelius did do this properly, and even boated that it culd tell if you'd speeded up or slowed down.

I think it improves if you set the quantisation level correctly. for example, if the shortest notes you are going to input are semi-quavers, tell it and it won't try to interpolate demi-semi-quavers with hemi-demi-semi-quaver rests etc...

Latency is a general PC issue and probably requires some money spending on a decent sound card and making sur eyou have enough RAM.