An excellent introduction to music braille written by Bettye Krolick, an internationally recognized authority in the field. Music Scanning Programs SharpEye and SmartScore analyze a scanned image of a piece of sheet music and converts it to a music file which can be passed to Lime or Cakewalk or other mainstream music software programs for further editing and printing. SmartScore has an integrated playback feature and SharpEye can call the Windows Media Player so that blind and sighted users can audition the results of scanning before exporting the file. Music Editors Music editors are like word processors for music. Users can input, edit and print out their arrangements and compositions.
Lime is mainstream music software designed for and by sighted musicians.
Lime is not usable by a blind person. Each instrumental part is recorded on its own track and can be assigned its own sound. In addition, some tracks can be assigned to record acoustic audio such as a vocal or instrumental performance. All these sounds can be blended together to make a sound recording. Cakewalk also has a very useful notation feature.