first attempt with ns

[milton]

Hello,
I need some basic help. I can scan the sheet music I have as a TIFF,PDF, or JPEG file but how to I get any of those into the NS player? I have tried to import the file as TIFF but with diastrous results. Please help if you can.

[Sherry C]

Hi Milton,

Notation Software products will open and transcribe .mid and .kar filetypes, and keep all edits in their .not filetype. For getting a written score that you have on paper into a file that you can use with Notation Software products, you can either hand-enter it into Notation Composer (http://www.notation.com/NotationComposer.php) (which you can try out free for 30 days) or you'll need an optical character recognition (OCR) application that translates graphic files or scans into .mid files. I use an inexpensive ($24) one myself called PhotoScore MIDI Lite, and you can read more about this process at our Article on Music Scanning Applications (http://www.notation.com/Articles-MusicOCR.htm).

ttfn,
Sherry