[HANASHIR:15659] RE: More Software and technical questions

[Andy Curry <acurry...>]

Ilana,

When you say "upload from MD to PC", Adrian is right.  However, you can 
RECORD from MD to PC.  This involves a digital-to-analog conversion and 
back again to digital, through your computer's sound-card 
input.  Cakewalk's Sonar does this, as do a number of much cheaper 
utilities.  I don't keep up with Microsoft's many products, but the Sound 
Recorder that comes with Windows might well do this.

Sonar, as well as the cheaper Cakewalk offerings, offer a staff view for 
MIDI, letting you transcribe.  It's a little limited in features, but you 
can definitely compose, arrange, and print music, within limits.  Finale is 
really the standard for producing sheet music professionally.

Good Shabbos,
Andy

At 04:27 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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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