Tablet for music notation

**Simms** · 08-14-2008, 05:43 AM

Hi all,

Did a search and the only thread I found about this was about a year old, so thought I'd ask...

Is there any way I can use my Wacom Bamboo tablet to ink music notation into Sibelius/Finale etc?

This would be fantastic if there was software out there that enabled me to draw in music notation freehand...

**number2jcb** · 08-14-2008, 09:00 AM

You can, but if you have gotten fluent with the keyboard already then that will be faster. You can draw the notes with the pen like you use the mouse. I am not familiar with any program that will recognize that you are writing different notes (whole/half etc), but it is nice to tap the notes into the staff instead of moving the mouse.

**Simms** · 08-14-2008, 10:58 PM

Yeah clicking them in with the pen is kinda redundant when you can use the keyboard or mouse to do just that. I was looking for something in the way of handwriting recognition for music notation --- like, draw a quarter-tone on the staff, and it recognises that you have drawn a quarter-tone on the line for B. Or whatever..... surely if a system can recognise the symbols used for handwriting, then it could also recognise the symbols for somehting else -- like a quarter-tone? ...... Anything out there?

**Flybane** · 08-15-2008, 11:58 PM

This isn't anything as smart as what you (and I) would like, but I had some nice results recently for simple notation drawing my own staves, noteheads, and symbols in Adobe Illustrator and saving them as symbols, then I could pick the symbol I wanted and just "spray" it onto the page by tapping, and then use the pen to draw in the stems and other. I also use a Bamboo. But I sure wish there would be a handwriting recognition thing.