I found the software at www.sharewaremusicmachine.com Click on Notation software. My favorites are: Guido - a small and easy program which lets you design blank music sheets and print them TIMidity++ v.2.10.2 - a work still in progress that is a MIDI to WAVE converter and player that uses Gravis Ultrasound-compatible patch files to generate digital audio data from General MIDI files. This is freeware. Amazing MIDI 1.60 - transcribes music, converting WAV files into MIDI files. It can recognize single-instrument polyphonic music. This demo lets use save a 30-second MIDI file. The full version only costs $29. AKoff Music Composer 2.0 - is music recognition software which performs WAV to MIDI conversion. Also costs $29 if you buy it. SharpEye Music Reader 1.21 - converts a scanned image of printed music into a MIDI or NIFF file. It does not support direct scanning but will accept a BMP and TIFF file. MidiNotate 3.0.1 - downloads MIDI files from the Internet and converts them to printable sheet music. Also does karaoke (.kar) files. Cakewalk ScoreWriter 1 Trial Version - I use the full version of this program (the demo does not allow you to save the sheet music) and I think I saw it recently for $39. These programs will get you started. They are shareware programs, and if you decided to buy any of them, they cost less than $89. Just remember though, that none of this technology is perfect and still needs editing. I think the most usefull thing I will learn next is how to edit Cakewalk Scorewriter files - then everything else is usable! Carol Beigel Greenbelt, Maryland
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