Sure, you can use your Motif to input notes and to play back via Lime.
Run Lime.
ALT+H for Hear
I for MIDI Input
Arrow down to the driver for your Motif.
O for MIDI Output and move down to Motif driver.
Let me know if you need help.
Regards,
Bill
Bill McCann
Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
www.DancingDots.com
Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
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*From:* ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Dominique
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 07, 2010 6:05 PM
*To:* ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [ddots-l] Re: Learning Braille Music?
Hey Bill? Can you use the Moteef with Lime?
Dominique: Writing via Thunderbird in Vinux.
On 09/06/2010 03:51 PM, Dancing Dots wrote:
Hi, Brandon,
Have you checked out our series of courses for learning how to read
braille music? See
http://www.dancingdots.com/main/braillemusicinstruction.htm for
details on the multi-volume courses by Richard Taesch.
In order to get material transcribed quickly, check out our GOODFEEL
Braille Music Translator. See
http://www.dancingdots.com/main/goodfeel.htm for details.
Actually, GOODFEEL is a suite of software that includes GOODFEEL
itself, the SharpEye Music Reader music OCR package, and the Lime
notation editor with the Lime Aloud scripts that make Lime accessible
using JAWS. Lime Aloud is one of the titles you receive with
GOODFEEL and is also sold separately for those who want access to
score information but do not need or want to learn braille music.
Lime is software that lets you read and write printed music notation.
Lime Aloud gives the blind musician excellent access to Lime's rich
set of notation editing features. With the JAWS for Windows screen
reader software installed, Lime Aloud provides the blind musician
with verbal and musical cues that make it easy to use Lime
independently and most productively.
Lime Aloud functions as a stand-alone product and also as a feature
of the GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator software from Dancing Dots.
In addition to the many verbal and musical cues Lime Aloud provides,
GOODFEEL customers can read the equivalent braille music for the
current measure on their electronic braille display. Of course,
GOODFEEL can also convert the entire Lime file into the equivalent
music braille and send it to your embosser to make a hardcopy
document. Go to www.DancingDots.com <http://www.DancingDots.com> and
select the link for GOODFEEL for more information.
Using Lime with Lime Aloud, you can:
Listen to playback of all or selected parts in tempo with a
metronomic click as a reference. It's easy to set playback tempo at,
under or over the marked tempo of the piece.
Memorize new material by listening to the verbal and musical cues as
you move note by note or chord by chord through the Lime file.
Play along on your own instrument with Lime's playback at a practice
or performance tempo.
Prepare printed scores of your own musical ideas such as original
compositions and arrangements or assignments for music courses.
You will find a brief audio presentation demonstrating our access
solution to the Lime notation editor at:
http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/limealoud.htm
See the heading labeled:
Audio Presentation of Lime Aloud Available for Download
Alternatively, go to www.DancingDots.com <http://www.DancingDots.com>
and follow the "Presentations" link and then select the Lime Aloud
demo from the list.
Preparing Accessible Scores
When you order Lime Aloud, you receive it together with the Lime
notation editor and the SharpEye Music Reader music OCR software.
Before you can study new material using Lime with Lime Aloud, it must
be entered into Lime in one of three possible ways: scan print score
using SharpEye, import the piece in the form of MusicXML exported
from another notation editor such as Sibelius or Finale, or entered
directly into Lime by typing and/or playing on a musical keyboard.
SharpEye is an excellent music-scanning software but sooner or later
it will make scanning errors. At that point, we need the help of a
sighted assistant since we blind musicians cannot see the original
print score to determine how to correct the errors. Of course, if we
could do that, we probably would not be scanning the music in the
first place! That being said, I have often successfully scanned and
learned previously unfamiliar pieces using SharpEye independently.
That is, it made no errors so I could pass the results to Lime and
study the piece by listening and transcribing it to braille music.
Importing MusicXML, which is an emerging standard for notation
interchange, promises to be the alternative which will afford blind
musicians the maximum level of independence. However, programs that
export MusicXML and programs that import it (including Lime itself)
still do occasionally make omissions or errors. That being said, I
have successfully learned pieces by importing the MusicXML into
Lime. But, if you want to be certain that every detail of the print
score has been imported, you will need to have a sighted assistant
compare the original to what Lime shows on screen and make any
necessary corrections. These days, it is extremely rare that notes
or rhythms will be incorrectly imported from MusicXML. However,
certain other details such as rehearsal markers or finger numbers may
still be literally lost in the translation.
Lime does allow you to enter notes, rhythms and all necessary related
annotations by typing on your PC keyboard. Adding an electronic,
musical keyboard to your workstation vastly improves the ease of
entering notes and even allows you to use Lime's Record Dialog to
enter notes in tempo to a metronomic pulse.
Regards,
Bill
Bill McCann
Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
www.DancingDots.com
Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
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*From:* ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Brandon Keith
*Sent:* Sunday, September 05, 2010 4:58 PM
*To:* ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [ddots-l] Learning Braille Music?
Hello,
I'm preparing to go into an Opera program and a lot of the classes
I'll be taking will have to do with sight-reading and reading scores
and whatnot.
I would like to know what would be the best lesson or products I
should get for me to be able to sight-read, and learn enough to read
scores and probably get through some theory classes.
I've just been listening to people saying the words memorizing those
then listening to someone singing the song and memorizing the song
like that, but that has its limits and I'm afraid I'll be hitting
those in college.
So any help would be great!
Thank you!
Brandon Keith
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