Can you transpose in finale notepad

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The topic title should clearly suggest the questions you are about to ask or already contain the question itself. Topics like this will be closed. Share Share with:. Link: Copy link. Double Ocarinist. Hey there, first I'm not sure if this is in the correct section. I couldn't find another fitting forum except for maybe sheet music where it looks like I'm not allowed to post, so I'll leave it here.

Please move it if you find a better place for this topic, I didn't want to revive the old Finale Notepad Tutorial Sticky. I tried to follow the tutorial here on TON section, which wasn't quite possible, so I took an MP3 file from a games soundtrack and used an internet converter to convert it into a MIDI file.

In the tutorial it is explained that you can separate the track containing the melody from the other tracks. How could I do a "clean up" in the simplest way possible? That would be my guess. In my first "try" I got like five pages for a simple melody. I looked up the keyboard shortcuts in the Finale Notepad Help here , but they don't seem to work. Also I can't view the example pictures in the tutorial as it looks like they're outdated.

If I create a new file there are two staves, one for treble clef and one for bass clef. How can I remove e. If I copy the treble clef staff into a new file, I've got a single staff which is what I want but too many pages see question 2.

And does it even do what I want create sheet music from MIDI , or can you just re arrange sheet music with it? I didn't find the matching piece of information for this question on the internet.

Does anyone of you even use Finale Notepad? I'm sorry if this thread is a mess, I still hope you can help me. Double Ocarinist x 3. After all, in a mp3, the sound of all instruments are mixed together, you have instruments playing in sync and so many things that will mess up with automated algorithms.

Besides, you can also change the staff at the beginning of the line. For instance, I almost always a treble clef with a little "8" on top to notice that the notes are one octave higher, so that I play on the save pitch as the program, and most of the range fits on the staff rather than on ledger lines.

On Musescore, you can also transpose by selecting parts or the whole music sheet and pressing up or down to transpose, each time you press up or down, the melody is transposed a semitone up or down. Also, this can help correcting individual notes. And I'm sorry not being able to help with Finale Notepad, maybe it is a great program, but I only know Musescore for the moment. The only thing I don't like in musescore is that it does not allow you to "insert" a note displace the rest of the melody So it is best to avoid screw up the rhythm.

Thank you for your answer. I appreciate any help, be it for Finale Notepad or for Musescore. I wasn't sure about which program to choose from these two. I went for Finale but I'm also thinking about switching to MuseScore or using both. Edit: For 2 What I mean is that the horizontal space in between notes is too large, not that there are too many ledger lines that is the case, too for some notes, that's the general "mess" I mentioned.

They're just notes, with a particular fingering, like any other. Nothing to be frightened of. And you need them, because much music ISN'T in the key of C, and even if it is anything but a very simple tune will still use some flat and sharp notes! Melanie -- many people have given you answers to the first part of your question I might also add Wikifonia.

Transposing can refer to either changing the key of the piece, moving it within an octave, or shifting the octave of a piece, or both.

If you learn all the scales ,you can easily transpose a music sheet without any software which is written in one scale to any other scale. So you can replace the notes in the music sheet with 1 note of C major C note with 1st note of E major E note and 2nd note of C major D note with 2nd note of E major F note respectively for all the notes in the music piece.

Once you replace all the notes in this method - the melody is now transposed from one scale to another scale - C major to E major. Press the up arrow key in the computer keyboard one time — now the notes will move one level up in the staff and form a D scale. In the same way you can transpose the music from one lower octave to higher octave. You can use the up arrow key to move the notes up and down as per your choice.

TuxGuitar Free probably has that feature. With both you'll have to manually enter the music in the software. But if the music is a well-known song, you may find already existing tabs in the Guitar Pro format that TuxGuitar can read , like on Ultimate-Guitar.

I suggest doing it by means of Finale and Sibelius. Also Musescore is useful, but If You're not acquainted with the programs, You may and will have troubles with any of them. This is why, You shouldn't do it by Yourself, just order scores and get it back in PDF, print them and play flute or else.

I suggest this service. My friends suggested me and now I save my time. I would dare to say that every serious notation software is capable of transposing a score to a different key or a different octave.

The problem would be rather how to get a PDF-file into that software. Here is a very basic example using LilyPond for transposing a simple scale to different keys:. It is powered by Audiveris, an open-source Optical Music Recognition program. There are two versions, the scanning version and the standard version.

In the second you have to enter the software first by pressing names of notes eg A C E etc. In the second you scan-in from sheet music or direct from PDF files. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Software that transposes music? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 6 months ago. Active 3 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 31k times. Melanie Shebel. Melanie Shebel Melanie Shebel 1, 4 4 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Not software, but give The Session a look. Many tunes are available with a listing of several artists who play a version of that tune.

This doesn't answer the question, but if you just want to play it an octave higher it's very easy to do on the fly. Many notes E - C are the same fingering in the second octave as the first. Michael it's not easy to read notes below ledger line C in treble cleff.

I think that's the problem Melaine is experiencing — Note that you don't really need to transpose anything at all if you intend to play alone. This isn't what you asked, but you might want to consider that doing the transposition yourself on paper or in your head is good practice and a way of becoming a better musician. If you want to learn a song really well, it pays to learn it in multiple keys.

Active Oldest Votes. Sibelius has a program called Photoscore that will do this. If the music is available as Midi file : Music notations can generally import the music and then you can use a transpose function.

Kyle Brandt Kyle Brandt 4, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. The full version of Finale also comes packaged with Musitek Smartscore Lite. Keep in mind that the best is often not the cheapest. Add a comment. Turion Turion 6 6 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. You would have to manually enter the music, though. I've never heard of a scanner program that could convert sheet music to the right file format.

Sibelius PhotoScore does it, but it's not free.