Earlier this year as a test I tried bringing in midi files of pieces I found
on the web - I opened the files in Sibelius and then did a Save As command
and chose .sib as file type. Should this work?
I also bought the pro version of Photo Score and tried testing it as well by
scanning in some pages of classical piano pieces and running them through
the program to convert them to sib files.
Here are some of my experiences, admittedly I have not done a huge number of
tests yet:
Sometimes it could not read the time signature, or put in the wrong time
signature - obviously, this led to big problems, with much of the music
having rhythmic mistakes, such as added rests or lost notes at the end of
bars.
Once, it separated the piano music onto four staffs, I guess because each
staff had two voices with stems up and stems down music, which is bad
enough, and additionally it made strange mistakes such as notes with no
ledger lines.
Sighted people told me one of my other tests became displayed as a strange
staff with only two lines in each hand instead of the usual five.
People are telling me my test pages probably have 50-100 mistakes per page.
Clearly, at that rate, it might almost be faster to type in the notes
starting from a blank score. Still, that would be very time consuming.
I would love to hear from someone who has successfully brought in midi or
xml files into Sibelius, or used Photo Score to bring in music from physical
books. Maybe I am doing something very basic incorrectly, or if my
experience is typical, I should try a completely different approach.
Michael
Michael Arnowitt
pianist/composer
MA@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.MAPiano.com
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[mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexandru Cozaciuc
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Subject: [sib-access] Re: file types
You don't need any plug-in. Sibelius can itself open both XML and MIDI
files. There are two plug-ins which are designed to convert a folder of
either MIDI or XML, and they come with Sibelius. You don't necessarily have
to use them, but you may save some time instead of opening each file and
saving it. You do need a plug-in if you want to export a Sibelius score to
XML. It's called Dolet 6.
Except XML and MIDI, you can try to open scores in PDF format with a program
called Photo Score. As the name probably suggests, this program is designed
to scan scores. By scanning, it takes a photograph of your score which it
tries to read, like a text OCR program. The same thing applies to PDFs, so
instead of scanning you open a PDF which Photo Score will try to read. The
problem is that you will probably always need someone to correct the errors
which occur in the recognition process. Anyway, if you're satisfied with the
results, you can send the score to Sibelius and do anything you want (print,
transpose, arrange etc.).
To recap, Sibelius can open SIB, XML, MXL (compressed XML), MIDI, OPT (files
generated by Photo Score), and files created in Finale 98-2003.
HTH,
Alex
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