Help Needed: MIDI->Paper Software

[shakeyeraz]

Apologies if there is already a thread on this but I searched and haven't found one.

 

I recently purchased a Roland Fantom S and I'm loving it (not the B3/tonewheel sounds though ). Anyway, it has sparked a creative streak but I am not fond of the manual transscription to paper after I have something down.

 

I would love to have a software package that would take the MIDI out, either direct or through a file, and put the notes to paper. I understand that there's a lot to this like - chord specification, beat, which notes are bass clef VS treble, etc. But, is there something that frees me from the some of manual transcription task?

 

Thanks.

k

[bloodsample]

I don't know if you mean what I think you mean, but here are a few programs that can take midi files (or let you record directly) and will put all the notes you played on a staff. As the following programs are designed to do this, they are very editable (eg you can choose the key, the time signature etc..)

 

Here are the two most popular ones (I think):

 

finale 2006:

http://www.finalemusic.com/

(note: finale has a free "notepad" version that I haven't tried but seems interesting)

http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/

 

Sibelius 4:

http://www.sibelius.com/

 

The last I've used was finale 2000 and that was fairly accurate at "transcribing" what I played, but I'm sure they've gotten better now.

 

Also keep in mind that many of the major sequencer programs offer this feature (Sonar, CubaseSX, etc) although they are not as detailed and editable (then again I haven't really explored this feature all that much so I may be wrong)

 

Hope that helps somewhat.

 

Good luck.

[shakeyeraz]

Thanks - the Finale stuff looks good. In fact, the NotePad Plus version looks like what I think I need. I'm trying to keep it simple and am not looking for a sophisticated solution.

 

I appreicate the info.

k

[Tusker]

You might want to quantize the midi file to grid before opening it in Notepad/whatever. You'll lose the sophisticated triplets and quintuples, but your standard stuff will be so much easier to move around. Best,

 

Jerry