At 980129 MMDigest Scott Currier asked for the best way to transcribe
sheet music to Midi.

Here are my proposals:

  1. 5-10 minutes -- let a good piano player ( like Robbie Rhodes ;-)
     perform on a Midi-keyboard and record the piece

  2. 1-2 hours -- scan the sheets and occupy a program like 'Midiscan'
     to do the difficult job of OCR (optical character recognition);
     you have to manually verify and correct to obtain good results --
     only printed (!) sheet music can be used

  3. 2 hours -- take a sequencer program and enter notes via keyboard;
     it depends on your skill of playing;  additional work to correct
     wrong notes

  4. 2-3 hours -- same job as point 3, but done with a mouse on a
     note-per-note base -- all corrections are made on the fly

(Approx. time is given per one side of paper of 'average' material).

Claus Kucher

 [ I'll write to Scott and volunteer my "live performance" method.
 [ How 'bout some other pianists and scribes?  Scott can collect
 [ the performances and statistics (time expended) for each of the
 [ methods, and tell us the results.   -- Robbie