Simple music Notation Software

[JohnLow]

Hi,
I am new to this site and have two questions: -

1. I am not a musician and am not having a good ear for music. I play saxophone at leisure and when I love a song, I always find it difficult to procure the corresponding musical notation to play with my saxophne. I am loking for a simple to use music notation software which allow me to input my downloaded mp3, wma and aac format music file into it and convert them into musical notation so that I could print out and enjoy my saxophone playing.
I do not really need a sophiscated software as my main purpose is to have the notes infront of me.

2. Could someone refer mto any musical web site that I can download Chinese, Hokkien and Cantonese songs(70's to 80's)?

3. Thank You.

 

[gutturalpiss]

Convert audio to midi == wav to midi - Google Search

Then load midi file into midi editor with standard notation view support, eg. Guitar Pro or NoteEdit.

 

[mingguan]

After you converted to MIDI, you may use Finale notepad to open the midi file, as a notation.
NotePad

 

[qfactor]

=JohnLow

Sorry, no matter what anyone tells you, it's STILL not possible to convert music from mp3 or whatever formats to music notation!! If this happens, it's gonna re-write the music publication industry!! :-0
Wav to MIDI converters can convert single melodies to MIDI, ultimately, to notes BUT not recordings of bands, ensembles, in other words, polyphonic music!

Though, I believe the technology is "getting there" and I'd "guessimate" would be we could see something like this available probably 5 to 10 years time?! Then the music publication business will turn UPSIDE DOWN, probably! LOL ;-)

 

[gutturalpiss]

Actually it does work, just that the output can be funny.

Music: Tokio - Sorafune, 16-bit WAV
WAV-MID Converter/Visualiser: WaoN/GWaoN
MIDI: 1 track, 21 divisions

No percussion, but the result is not bad at all - the core melodies and riffs are there. If you open it in a note editor, you'll get everything in one track - a huge mess but useful nonetheless. This is not even high-end specialised software, and notice that some bands have MIDI files of their music for download; I don't think they wrote those from scratch eg. DragonForce.

 

[bf0502tr]

dragonforce has their midi files for download? man this i gotta see!!

 

[Sweet]

Regarding music notation, I use MagicScore Maestro, it's easy to use, I started with it when I had very little experience, but it's also helpful as a teaching tool. It has a spell-checker, virtual piano and guitar tools, so I just press keys like with a real piano, and the notes are recorded automatically. It supports many instruments, has plug-ins for external midi devices. It's easy to make out everything even with little musical knowledge.

 

[gutturalpiss]

Actually, threadstarter is not looking for "simple music notation software", but rather complex Transcribers.