Reply to Marc,re wat do I want to do
Hi, I have a teacher with a severe eye impairment as a result of which it is very difficult for him to notate music. He will work out a fairly complex arrangement which i will video on my Ipad and i will try to follow this.I have a poor memory and this is time consuming so what I would like to do is for him to play this slowly in Reaper edit out any problems and print it out in Musescore so I would have it in the future. I thought either Reaper or Musescore would do this but after listening to you guys it seems that what I am doing might not be possible. I had hoped that he could play it in reaper and use midi to print it which is why I wanted to see the video on how to enter midi using my keyboard. Has anyone else tried to do this or is it even possible. Thanks
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Is this supposed to be a reply to https://musescore.org/en/node/249496#comment-778516 ? Of so, why not replying there?
In reply to Is this supposed to be a… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes I guess I should have replied there . I am still trying to find my way around these forums. Apolpgies
If he has already played it in Reaper and saved the result as a MIDI file, then you don't need to use MIDI input in MsueScore at all - you simply need to open the MIDI file. That is, go to File / Open, find the file, and open it normally. However, be forewarned that MIDI is not a notation forma and does not contain most of the information that would be needed in order to create a readable score. The result of the import is unlikely to be very readable.
FWIW, MuseScore is designed to be at least partially usable by the visually impaired, although there are definitely limitations. But it's possible to do quite a bit. If he is willing to learn, see the "Accessibility" section of the Handbook for more info on what can and can't be done. Also, there are other ways of creating music notation if you are visually impaired. The "ABC" music notation language is perhaps the easiest.
In reply to If he has already played it… by Marc Sabatella
Ii am not that concerned about his ability to follow the sheet music as he can play by ear and it does"nt have to be a perfect score. What I would like is to record the song with the left hand recorded on the base stave and the right handed recorded on the treble stave so that I have the music for future reference Because of his impairment he is not that computer literate and neither am I and I am finding it incredibly difficult to follow the tutorials in both Reaper and musescore so please bear with me if I post seemingly stupid posts. For now I will try to get around some of the beginner tutorials to try and get reasonably familiar with both programs.
In reply to Ii am not that concerned… by gatley
I am not concerned with his ability to read the music, but rather yours. generally speaking, sheet music created by importing real-time MIDI performances is a very long ways from being readable, by you or him or anyone else. There is usually much work required to convert the raw information into something that would actually make sense to read. MuseScore tries its best, but it's not an easy problem to solve.
Anyhow, feel free to give it a shot. Use Reaper to record the file - you're on your own there, or see if they provide forums for help. But once you've recorded the music in Reaper, export it as a standard MIDI file. Once you've done that, all you need to do is open that file in MuseScore, and you'll have something to look at.
In reply to I am not concerned with his… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, you have given me a lot to think about. I have an old cakewalk program, pro audio 9 whichI have used where I play go to midi and then go to piano roll and see it as a score. It is very difficult to use it to play from and my thinking was that these later programs would have somehow simplified things,but from what you and others have said that it is always going to be a time consuming job. I will keep trying to get to understand it better.