Dear Terry,

No, a person cannot translate braille music into print using a PC. No software will do this. Dancing Dots can translate print music into braille, but the manufacturers admit the transcription isn't 100% correct.

Braille music is a complex code and there is more to it than just single letters and numbers. Some signs have two cells in them and keyboard music is the most difficult to read and write. There are very few braille music transcribers. I had a music theory book which was transcribed completely wrong and it drove me nuts.

There are some music scores in Web Braille and you can read them with the BN.

Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.  Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California
----- Original Message ----- From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Music Composer


Terri;
Transcribing music from Braille to print, can't this be done on a
regular computer?
If so, what are people complaining about.  If it is composed on a
computer, why can't they read it on a Braille display, with the voice
off.  It would just have to be in grade 2.  All music symbols are equal
to letters of the alphabet or single cell contractions.

Terry Powers


-----Original Message-----
From: Terri Pannett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Music Composer

Like I said many times before, there is no software which supports
braille
to print music translation.  Don't expect Humanware to take the time to
invent software like this.  They're going to work on software programs
that
will help the majority of the blind and braille music readers are in the

minority.

Let's stop this useless topic and move on to something more productive.

Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.  Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Thredgold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:14 AM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Music Composer


Dear Joseph and list.  I take Joseph's point about sacrificing memory
if
the music composer is implemented at this point but definitely believe
the Braille Music code should be implemented so it can be recognized
in
print.

I was also wondering if music composing software could be devised
along
the lines of, say, Sibelius, but done on a memory card like the
multi-lingual or dictionary software, which would take up less room on
the hard drive.  I don't know if this is possible, or whether we'd
still
run into the same problem of sacrificed performance which Joseph has
already mentioned, but if not, it would be worth thinking about.

Cheers!

Michele

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Lee
Sent: Friday, 2 February 2007 3:24 AM
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Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Music Composer


Hi there,
You just write Braille Music using the Braille Music code on your
document. When you are done, just emboss it, as print does not
recognize
musical scores. I do not use Braille Music (at least when I'm
composing
or rearranging a song). I usualy sompose by listening/by ear, so it is
a
bit faster for me. And having a bit of advantage in music helps me
compose a bit faster. Cheers, Joseph

-----Original Message-----
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Manfrinie
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:03 AM
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Subject: re: [Braillenote] Music Composer

Hi Joseph,
 Would you describe the process of writing Braille Music although I
have severl versions contributed to the List, which I thank everyone
for, I would appreciate your procedure also.  I have a Classic with
the
6.11 upgrade build 26.
 Thank you in advance.
 Eugenio


----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:47:14 -0800
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Music Composer

Martin,
BrailleNote is not a sound processor.  USB Audio Devices like MIDI
devices are not supported (there is no driver for it in KeySoft).  You
can write Braille Music with your BrailleNote, but you cannot actually
process digital to analog and analog to digital converting in
BrailleNote.
Cheers,
Joseph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Courcelles"
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Date sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:32:03 -0500
Subject: [Braillenote] Music Composer

Hi there,
I think the subject line says it all.  Some
of you may remember the Eureka?
You know, the NoteTaker with the Nice
sounding Australian woman with a lisp?
I loved that thing.  I had a chance to test
drive one once and had a great
old time composing music on it.  It had a
wapping 3 voice processor.  Well it
was wapping back then.  I'm just wondering if
the BrailleNotes could be
engineered to do that sort of thing.  If not,
then maybe they could be
coupled with a USB MIDI controller.  You
could then compose the music and
have the BrailleNote spew it to a MIDI
Keyboard.
Just throwing out ideas.  I just figure that
there are so many of us who are
musician, it's nice to have a NoteTaker which
can help you in htat sort of
thing as well.
Cheers,
Martin



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