[HANASHIR:15658] RE: More Software and technical questions

[Adrian A. Durlester <adrian...>]

Ilana:

I'm a bit confused by your message. What software are you looking at that
can "do the whole package" ? And what, exactly, is the "whole" package. You
speak only of two items--electronic transcription of music, and the ability
to digitally record material from your MDs. No program can do the second.
Period. So I'm confused as to what you found that seems an answer to your
prayers?

FWIW, Finale 2004 is out now and is the best incarnation of the program yet.
Forget the steep learning curve if you're only interested in using it for
simple transcription. Learning how to do that is now easier than ever. It is
also capable of saving files as .wav or AIFF which can be burned directly to
a music CD and played.

As far as digital recording studio software, you can't beat Cakewalk Sonar,
which does almost everything that the even more expensive programs like
CuBase do, but for less money (still not cheap, however.)

Be more specific about the applications you've been looking at,. And maybe
some of us can help you out a bit more.

Shabbat Shalom,

Adrian
Adrian A. Durlester, MTS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org] On Behalf Of ilana axel
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:44 PM
> To: list HANASHIR
> Subject: [HANASHIR:15657] More Software and technical questions
> 
> 
> Dear friends,
> I am trying to upgrade two different areas in my work.
> I have copied almost everything ever written on these subjects at 
> Hanashir in a reference file for when I was ready and am very grateful 
> for all of your help, experience, and observations. I do however, have 
> some more questions and am hoping some of you out there can further
> help me. My apologies if these subjects have already been 
> covered recently and I missed them!
> 
> My goals are to:
> 1 - Use software for music writing.
> 2 - Be able to upload from MD to PC in order to create
> mp3 and/or wav files and also burn CD's.
> 
> With regards to the first goal, I was about to
> purchase Finale. However, in trying to solve the
> second MD- to- PC issue, I was looking into software
> programs only to discover none exist (except for
> Adrian and Kathy's suggestions to use SoundBlaster
> Extigy, and Joanna's suggestion of Sound Forge). In
> fact, the MD website has a petition out to SONY
> complaining that this feature does not exist at all.
> However, while looking at software programs I became
> aware that some of them offer the whole thing in one
> package. This means I would not need Finale, nor my
> MD, but could have software that would record directly
> into my PC, then be able to write and print the music
> for me as well from the recorded file. I assume BTW
> that this disallows being able to write music that I
> can't myself play or sing for the recording.
> Can anyone enlighten me on this software with regards
> to reality, quality, user ease and compatibility of
> these programs (with the SONY Vio laptop that I am now using)?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Ilana Axel
> 
> 
> =====
> Ilana Axel
> Music Director/Jewish Music Specialist/Singer
> JRF Master Teacher 2002
> Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue
> Northbrook, Illinois
> Tel: 847-279-0473
> iaxel (at) yahoo(dot)com
> 
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