Re: [Harp-L] music software advice

[Emile Damico <oatss_oatflakes@xxxxxxxxx>]

No. 6 is tough don't know anything that does that.

Band in a Box creates great backing tracks just put in
the changes and it does it in a lot of different styles.
Program was created by geniuses. The great jazz guitarist
Jimmy Bruno swears by it. I don't know about it's recording
side.

Garage Band comes free in every Mac and is great for recording
single tracks and can handle midi. Drag and Drop even with 
audio Files also. 

Finale will do the scan and will make midi files out of
the arrangements you write also ha Band in a Box built in
but not a full version. will make audio files also.
You can record but I've never done it. Does do scanning.


--- On Fri, 7/8/11, harpl-hm <dough.harpl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: harpl-hm <dough.harpl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] music software advice
> To: "Harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 11:44 AM
> For quite a while I have been
> thinking about getting some kind of music
> software to create practice arrangements for harp. 
> Maybe record myself too.
> And now that I am learning a bit on the piano there are
> other features that
> would be useful.  So it's time to get serious! 
> Here are the thing that I
> would like to be able to do:
> 
> 1.    Create simple (or complex)
> arrangements as midi files.
> 2.    Be able to import existing files and
> modify them.
> 3.    I have some piano arrangements that
> I'd like to enter into an editor
> via a midi keyboard so I could hear it.  ( I can read
> well enough to play
> the notes to play the arrangements in 'real time'.)
> 4.    Create PDF docs of arrangements, with
> good control over font size,
> layout etc.  Include lyrics.
> 
> Those would be the main things I'd want to do but maybe it
> could do more,
> such as:
> 
> 5.    Recognize scanned sheet music and
> create a midi file.
> 6.    Recognize recorded music and create
> midi file.
> 7.    Allow me to record myself playing
> against midi backing and create
> audio file.
> 
> And there are probably features that I would want but don't
> yet know exist.
> And maybe I need more than one program. (?)
> 
> All suggestions or advice
> appreciated.   Thanks in advance.
> 
> Doug H 
> 
>