For nearly all my music work I use a wonderful bit of software called Harmony Assistant, which you can find at http://www.myriad-online.com/en/index.htm
What I do is to import the MIDI file into HA (it takes care of all the fiddly stuff like dynamics, grace notes, triplets and so on, by default, but you can control if if you please), which gives me a basic score. I then use the score tools to neaten it up, and then, when I'm happy with the layout, export it page by page as PostScript (.ps) files. Then it's just a matter of using Adobe Distiller and Acrobat to convert the pages into an EPS file, ready for printing and binding. I already had the Adobe tools, but there are freeware tools out there that will do the same.
I keep nudging the Guillon brothers (who are the authors of the Harmony and Melody tools) to write a 'dump the score as EPS' tool, but they have plenty of other things to work on, and I don't mind doing the step-by-step approach for smallish scores.
At fifteen Euros for Melody Assistant - Harmony Assistant without some of the bells and whistles, which to be honest I don't use much, and I really only paid for Harmony to give the team some more money :) - it's an amazing bargain, and Harmony itself's only 65 Euros.
The best toy they make, I think, is Virtual Singer (15 Euros). Put a score into Harmony or Melody, type in the lyrics, select the language and the type of voice... and it sings. I did a pretty splendid version of Tallis' Spem in Alium with it - software that can sing a 40-part motet, wow!
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Date: Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:55 pm (UTC)What I do is to import the MIDI file into HA (it takes care of all the fiddly stuff like dynamics, grace notes, triplets and so on, by default, but you can control if if you please), which gives me a basic score. I then use the score tools to neaten it up, and then, when I'm happy with the layout, export it page by page as PostScript (.ps) files. Then it's just a matter of using Adobe Distiller and Acrobat to convert the pages into an EPS file, ready for printing and binding. I already had the Adobe tools, but there are freeware tools out there that will do the same.
I keep nudging the Guillon brothers (who are the authors of the Harmony and Melody tools) to write a 'dump the score as EPS' tool, but they have plenty of other things to work on, and I don't mind doing the step-by-step approach for smallish scores.
At fifteen Euros for Melody Assistant - Harmony Assistant without some of the bells and whistles, which to be honest I don't use much, and I really only paid for Harmony to give the team some more money :) - it's an amazing bargain, and Harmony itself's only 65 Euros.
The best toy they make, I think, is Virtual Singer (15 Euros). Put a score into Harmony or Melody, type in the lyrics, select the language and the type of voice... and it sings. I did a pretty splendid version of Tallis' Spem in Alium with it - software that can sing a 40-part motet, wow!