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Title: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: karma7 on June 15, 2018, 10:19:08 AM
1. Download and install MuseScore
 MuseScore https://musescore.org/
 Handbook https://musescore.org/en/handbook

2. Download game midi (For example, VGMusic)
 VGMusic https://www.vgmusic.com/
 Conversion Tools for Video Game Music (Focuses on Sequenced Music → MIDI) http://loveemu.hatenablog.com/entry/Conversion_Tools_for_Video_Game_Music

3. MuseScore opens midi (see "Key Signature" and "Tempo") and make new "Grand Staff" score
 Recommended "Max. voices" =1

4. Copy the channel you want from midi score and paste it on the new score.
 Selection modes https://musescore.org/en/handbook/selection-modes
 To extend the selection to the beginning of the score: Press Shift+Ctrl+Home (Mac:Shift+Cmd+Fn+←).
 To correct the octave Use Ctrl+↓ or Ctrl+↑ (Mac: Cmd+↓ or Cmd+↑).

 Voices https://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices
 How to merge/combine/implode two staves in one with two voices. https://musescore.org/en/node/12345

5. Adjust it and Export PDF/MusicXML Files!
 Hint: Considering the size of the hand.
         Do not pack too much sound.
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: Olimar12345 on June 15, 2018, 10:26:01 AM
Wow, thanks for the tutorial, karma7! (and welcome to NSM!) The way we make sheets here is a bit different though, and involves creating them entirely from scratch (alleviating the need to search for a midi file). If you're interested in contributing here, check out the Submission Info, found in the NSM Panel: http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?action=nsm;area=info;sa=submission
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: karma7 on June 15, 2018, 10:41:36 AM
Quote from: Olimar12345 on June 15, 2018, 10:26:01 AMWow, thanks for the tutorial, karma7! (and welcome to NSM!) The way we make sheets here is a bit different though, and involves creating them entirely from scratch (alleviating the need to search for a midi file). If you're interested in contributing here, check out the Submission Info, found in the NSM Panel: http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?action=nsm;area=info;sa=submission

I understand. Thank you!
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: Trasdegi on June 15, 2018, 11:06:07 AM
the problem is that you're 10 years too late: the vast majority of games since the wii don't even use MIDIs anymore. Also, midi copy-pasting rarely looks good, and you don't need to have perfect pitch to transcribe.
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: Sebastian on June 15, 2018, 11:08:20 AM
Man, I'd give anything for perfect pitch...
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: LeviR.star on June 15, 2018, 12:11:33 PM
Quote from: Sebastian on June 15, 2018, 11:08:20 AMMan, I'd give anything for perfect pitch...

I have it... do you have cookies?
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: Sebastian on June 15, 2018, 12:12:07 PM
Deal. 1 or 2 dozen?
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: LeviR.star on June 15, 2018, 12:17:03 PM
1 will be fine. You've got yourself a deal.
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: Dekkadeci on June 15, 2018, 05:19:01 PM
Don't trust MIDIs. Some of them are horrifically unreliable. Some of them just get a few harmonies wrong.
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: WaluigiTime64 on June 15, 2018, 06:04:42 PM
Plus MIDIs don't account for playability at all.

Also using a MIDI from somewhere else and making sheet music based off it isn't exactly nice, and doesn't help develop musical abilities at all, hence why NSM prefers to have the arrangers also be the transcribers.
Title: Re: How to easily make Sheet Music (without perfect pitch)
Post by: Maelstrom on June 15, 2018, 06:24:51 PM
also it's
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