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From: doug@dept.csci.unt.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sheet Music Editor
Summary: Supposedly on the way.
Message-ID: <1990May9.051540.4355@dept.csci.unt.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 05:15:40 GMT
References: <1990May08.233140.9693@csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: doug@dept.csci.unt.edu (Douglas Scott)
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In article <1990May08.233140.9693@csuchico.edu> rodmur@csuchico.edu (Dale Andrew Harris) writes:

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>what a major pain it would be to write a piece.  With all the faculties the 
>NeXT has for sound and music I can't believe it doesn't have a Sheet Music
>Editor, in which I can enter a real score which the computer would interpret
>and then play.  There is just no substitute to actually seeing the music.
>Does anyone know of one that exists. Danke schon.
>

There is at least one major music notation program being ported to the NeXT by
its designers (Finale for example).  Though these products are primarily for
music printing, they also have the capability of producing MIDI data files
which can be used to control external MIDI equipment--but which can be
converted (via some nifty homemade programs) into a score format readable by
NeXT synthesis software.  Now, there is still a tremendous amount of
interpretation involved here, in terms of how a given musical passage is
converted into sound, but it is a start.  None of this matters until the third
party products are released.  At that time, I guarentee I will post regarding
this process.
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Douglas Scott
doug@dept.csci.unt.edu