Another thing is if is starts on an upbeat, or like many chorus pieces, does not end or begin in a full measure it will display your music as having bad rhythm. Any measure markings in your score? Any of those fancy Italian or English words of expression? Any changes of tempo markings noted? Repeats, multiple endings, you know the stuff that makes music, well, music? Yah, all that’s going to mess up the way the music is read by the software. Next the software will read your music, and adjust it for you automatically. Oh, except don’t forget you have to adjust the scanning settings because music can not be read on ‘color scale’, change it to gray scale. Just plug the CPU into the scanner press scan and presto it scans. Despite it’s claims of being so easy that anyone could use it without training, it really is not that easy at all.Įnter my first attempt at scanning software. There is very little chance of just anyone using this program and being able to make it work for them, unless they indeed have a musical ‘trained’ background. Well, after actually using the program, I have to say, musician’s do not worry, we still have job security. Not to mention all those practice hours to perform something perfectly, now I can just scan it in. A computer could do in an instant what I labored to learn to earn my music degree. I started thinking about all those days of aural harmony notation and studying being a potential huge waste of time.
Completely enthralled by the possibilities of actually being able to scan any piece of sheet music and playing it perfectly with any instruments, as well as being able to chart music from live audio or MP3 files and cd’s into sheet music form was just too much temptation for me to resist. I’m exploring this new, very costly software for songwriting and composition that I have recently purchased.