3. How to create music Braille from a print original¶
- Table of contents
- 3. How to create music Braille from a print original
- 3.1 capella scanning and notation tools
- 3.2 Help with capella scanning and editing
- Video Tutorial: Using capella-scan to scan your sheet music
- Video Tutorial: Using capella-scan to process the scanned file
- Video Tutorial: Using capella to prepare file for conversion
- Video Tutorial: How sections are used in capella and music Braille
- Guidance: Help for transcribers working with capella
- Guidance: capella Optimizers
If you have the original print score for conversion, here’s help on how to scan it and convert it into music Braille using MakeBraille.
3.1 capella scanning and notation tools¶
We recommend that you purchase and use two tools from capella software to scan and edit print scores ready to convert into music Braille with MakeBraille, as all these tools work very effectively together:
- Scanning tool: capella-scan
- Music notation tool: capella
3.2 Help with capella scanning and editing¶
Video Tutorial: Using capella-scan to scan your sheet music¶
This tutorial explains the steps that are necessary to scan a sheet of print music with the help of the software capella-scan, for conversion into music Braille. It also gives some basic information about the production of Braille scores using capella-scan. Video has English captions with German audio.
Video Tutorial: Using capella-scan to process the scanned file¶
This tutorial describes in detail how to work with capella-scan. It shows you how to prepare scanned sheet music for further processing in the capella notation program. The focus is on the elimination of errors caused by the automatic note recognition. Video has English captions with German audio.
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Video Tutorial: Using capella to prepare file for conversion¶
In this tutorial, we explain the further processing of a piece of music which has already been prepared in capella-scan. With the help of the capella notation software, corrections and additions are made to the file so that it meets the special requirements for conversion into Braille notes. The tutorial consists of several lessons, which you can select directly from the menu.
Please note: this video may not illustrate the same version of capella as you are using, so some menu options may now be in different places, but the principles are the same. These tutorials are aimed at sighted users who are visually scanning and marking up scores ready for conversion into music Braille.
Video Tutorial: How sections are used in capella and music Braille¶
This tutorial explains the sectional notation used in music Braille to structure a score into Section-by-Section layout. It demonstrates how capella automatically sets sections, and how you can manually adjust them. Video has English captions with German audio.
Guidance: Help for transcribers working with capella¶
This is specific additional guidance for those preparing files in capella ready for conversion into music Braille. It gives instructions for how to control the output and add features not supported in capella. For other support please refer to capella's own help documentation.
Guidance: capella Optimizers¶
dzb lesen has created some Optimizers for capella for specific features or music types which can significantly improve music Braille conversions by indicating scanning errors so you can fix them before conversion. You install them into your version of capella and call them from the plugin menu.
Last Updated: 12.10.2020