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Originally Posted by joelf
In addition to StaffPad, there is also NotateMe, which should work on your iPad if it was the latest version 3 years ago. It may work even if that isn't true – the best thing to do is to try it. NotateMe lets you actually notate music on a staff using a stylus (or maybe your finger) and recognizes it as music, which it can digitize so it can be manipulated as any other digitized music (which means you can transpose, print out parts with another application, etc.)
Unfortunately, at this time, no one has come up with software to reliably recognize handwritten scores, which is pretty understandable. It is being worked on, but it may be a long time before a solution is found. So until then, if you want to do the digital things that may interest you, you'll have to engage with the software end of it at some point. I understand the predicament – I, also, had to learn many complicated things in order to use the software. But I was younger, and it actually interested me, so I was lucky to get in on the ground floor.
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01-03-2024, 09:05 PM #77joelf GuestOriginally Posted by Ukena
I'd write more, but am well fried from dealing all day with guess what?
You're right: our modern, 'easier' world. Ugh...
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how did we end up debating the merits of software notation programs? For me, that ship sailed 30+ years ago. My dad started using Finale at the age of 75 and it was the first software he ever had on a computer and eventually used it for band arrangements, transposing charts, music copying, etc.
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01-05-2024, 07:51 AM #79joelf GuestOriginally Posted by Ukena
I've admitted that I'm not too patient, and this still holds. But I'd be patient messing with synth sounds b/c I can see the creative potential there. But I will not give up handwriting! It's one thing that allows for individuality, just as we should strive to be original when playing or composing. I've learned a great deal from looking at handwritten scores and lead sheets by writers I admire like Bill Finegan; Manny Albam and James Chirillo. Writing by hand worked peachy keen for them, and the work is both individual and beautiful to the eye (in fairness and disclosure: Chirillo now uses Finale or Sibelius, I forget which, exclusively---for final cut, though his sketch scores are still in pencil)
Machines and me just don't like each other. They drive me nuts, except my car and microwave. (I turn the steering wheel to the right and BAM I make a right. I press 5 minutes on the microwave and damned if my food doesn't get ready in 5 minutes!!). The rest just raise my blood pressure with all their complications, learning curves and especially multiple passwords to remember (or forget). Why go through that? I'd rather pay someone to do it for me and be free to concentrate on the music (or spend all the time wasted trying to negotiate all this techno shit on things I enjoy and that don't continually make me feel stupid).
But I'll at least consider changing, or at least compromising. No choice any more anyway---they got us all by the balls...Last edited by joelf; 01-06-2024 at 09:12 AM.
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Originally Posted by joelf
Every piece of electronic hardware is dependant on Chinese exploitatory labor. It does not take a pseudo-Buddhist*) Steve Jobs for that. Smartphones are not that complicated. Toddlers get the hang of it. You do not have to love them but some apps are really of practical use like Drumgenius or iReal (IMHO). BTW there are apps called password managers. You do not have to remember all of them.
I do not want to talk you into anything. Using paper and pencil is fine ... breath in ... breath out ...
*) Feeling love for all living beings and using exploitatory labor does not go together well for me.
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01-05-2024, 12:23 PM #81joelf GuestOriginally Posted by Bop Head
I'll ease into what I have no choice but to, (and would love to mess with synth recording), but continue the lo-tech approach to written composition and copying. Brain; piano (or guitar)pedaling when necessary; manuscript paper and whiteout; scan to save, etc. That's just the kind of crazy hairpin I am.
I do apologize to the OP for hijacking the thread though, and thank everyone who offered their help. Done...Last edited by joelf; 01-05-2024 at 10:27 PM.
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Making recordings, using the audio recording/editing software, making videos and using the video editing software, using notation software to produce scores (and midi files to use in the recording software!), with the assorted gear, microphones, interfaces, cameras, etc. etc. and trying to get all this up to the standard to put it on youtube - these are all time-consuming (and frequently frustrating) rabbit-holes to go down. (As if playing jazz guitar to a good standard isn’t hard enough!)
So I can totally understand why some people don’t want to get embroiled in it.
Personally I enjoy it, but then I worked in systems for 40 years so I’m used to forcing recalcitrant software to obey my bidding. (Still doesn’t stop me swearing at the screen a lot!)
I do like Musescore a lot, for a freebie I think it’s great. I never use Finale now.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Originally Posted by sgcim
So I tried the LP Clean - not too bad but still sounds a bit like surf guitar to me! Then tried SC (Strat) Clean - oddly I found this a bit better, at least it's a bit less twangy. Sounds like it has some odd palm-muting effect though. Anyway it's good enough to try out a score with. I'll keep playing around with it.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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I’ve also managed to get the VST option working, and applied a free guitar plugin which I found somewhere. It includes a clean Tele sound (allegedly sampled using the neck pickup) which is useable, I will play around with that as well.
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Originally Posted by joelf
Here is an example of a person willing to do this for a reasonable fee (this is not a recommendation; I don't know who this person is, athough I have used fiverr.com for a furniture delivery, and was satisfied with the result):
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Last edited by Boss Man Zwiebelsohn; 01-09-2024 at 11:25 AM.
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
To be honest, I had to do a lot of messing about with parameters etc. to get it to work fully in Reaper, so I suspect Musescore would be even more tricky to call it from.
The new brass and woodwinds in Musescore don’t sound too bad actually, I think they are decent enough to test out a score with.
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I like the fact that when you open a v3 score in v4, it automatically switches all the instruments over to the new sounds in the mixer (if you have them downloaded), that saves a lot of time with a big band score!
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Originally Posted by grahambop
I've downloaded all the new sounds.
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TuxGuitar is easy to work with for a guitar/bass player.
Musescore has good sounds.
I use both.
TuxGuitar - Wikipedia
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Originally Posted by sgcim
Blu vs LJ
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