Need advice choosing music scanning software (listed below or other
ideas welcome) as to accuracy and ease of mastering.  I am a novice
and only plan to separate vocal parts to distribute to singing group.

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Request for Question Clarification by till-ga on 24 Sep 2002 05:45 PDT

Your question is not clear enough fpr me to give you an answer.
Are you looking for an editor that makes it possible to record, edit
and mix tracks ?
I use such a (low cost) system for several years. It´s in the price
region of about $69 up to $ 249, depending on the functions you need.
Is that the price region we´re talking about ?

till

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Clarification of Question by jbharlon-ga on 25 Sep 2002 10:29 PDT

Sorry, I did leave off the software I thought were possible choices:
SmartScore
SharpEye
PhotoScore
PrintMusic

Think I have an answer for you.  I found that the best software for
editing music and mastering, adding effects, etc.. is SoundForge
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/
A lot of professional studios, after laying the tracks down, send it
to sound forge for mastering.  The software costs about $350 - $400
I have been using it for years and has been wonderful.  As far as
separating the Vocals, The is no TRUE software that takes ONLY the
voice, but what CAN be done, is even with SoundForge is lower some
Frequencies and raise others.. that way the music is more or less in
the far background.. so you're basically "pulling" out frequencies.
Email the people at Sonicfoundry to verify that it will do an
exceptional job of what you want to do.. but that'll probably be the
best u can get

May I reccomend for simple use one of the Photoscore packages from Neuratron?

Read about them at this link here.

http://www.neuratron.com/photoscore.htm

I hope this helps.