There are many ways to do most things. This video shows how Fred Feild used to do the sheet music singing process using Cubase on a Windows desktop computer. We have another video made by Vancha March showing the process he uses on an Apple computer.
How do I know which songs need singers? I think it’d be fun to do some.
Do any you like. The ones already done have a link to YouTube at the bottom of the song page. Fred
It is truly a labor of love to enter note-by-note transcriptions. I am among possibly a minority of the audience for Sheet Music Singer in that: (1) I do not play piano; (2) I do not own an interfacing instrument; and (3) I do not use Cubase. I do, however, use MuseScore to support a music teaching program and a community choir. MuseScore is a sheet music program that will accept a Cubase-exported MusicXML file as input. If Sheet Music Singer files were available as MusicXML files, the impact and audience for the work would expand considerably.
I regret not being able to really play the piano, sight-playing at full speed. I tried. Most of our midis are created with Cakewalk now. James Pitt-Payne is really good at it. He divides the notes into four tracks, like the four voices in MuseScore. He can also play the piano.
We might be getting close to having AI-based optical music recognition that makes it trivially easy to transform scanned/photographed images of sheet music into MusicXML files. The programmer Adrian Holovaty, who is behind the Soundslice website/music platform, has come up with an artificial intelligence-based music scanning program that could improve much more quickly than the products out on the market right now (e.g. PlayScore, ScanScore, PhotoScore Ultimate, and SmartScore, which evolve slowly, based on manual code updates). Adrian’s got a beta version of his program available to Soundslice subscribers (I’m not one, but I might have to do the $5 subscription just to test this out). Right now, he limits users to 5 or 15 pieces (up to 8 pages per piece) per month (depending on which subscription you get). If this thing work, and had higher limits, it would be a game changer for a project like this sheet music archive. Here’s Adrian talking about it on the Scoring Notes podcast:
https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/from-zero-to-slice/