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What scan software can be used to scan sheet music into band in the box?
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Loaok for a Music Scanning software that can convert the scanned result to a MIDI file.
Then load the MIDI file into BIAB.
--Mac
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Yes, I second Mac's reply. I'm a relative newbie, but have been using Finale Print Music's scanning utility to scan into Print Music, then save as a MIDI file and import into BIAB or RB.
--Donna
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If you find and feel successful with this please let me know. I've tried PrintMusic and also the pro version of the Sibelius scanning software. Here are the 2 problems that I've had:
1. The preview shows the scan pretty clearly but the software seems to produce a lot of errors in scanning. In fact, I can input the single part stuff faster manually from scratch than I can scanning it in and correcting all of the errors.
2. The sheet music comes in different dimensions. Some sheet music does not fit well on a normal size scanning bed. Things like thick books of music are also hard to scan and/or copy.
I gave up using the scanning stuff some time ago. Luckily, I have been able to find midi files that I can load in and then edit. That still takes some time though. When I've got all the stuff in and have my final BIAB song, I print out the music via BIAB. I actually like the printed page it produces better than the one from Sibelius. FWIW
I sincerely hope your experience with scanning sheet music is better than mine.
Stan
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Yes, you're quite right about the need for editing; I've only used the "lite" application that comes with Print Music, so I don't know if the optional, more expensive version works any better. Since I'm not a keyboard player, I'm not fast at inputting the data, so even with editing the scans, they've worked for me.
You're also right about the problems inherent in using flatbed scanners: I've only used letter-sized sheet music and the utility on my Epson scanner allows me to crop the preview image to the correct size before doing the final scan.
In any case, there probably aren't easy solutions that most of us can afford.
Good luck with your MIDI files.
--Donna
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