Thanks Marc for your detailed response. Even I tend to go further with idea
#1, which seems to be beneficial to many musicians (including me). This
definitely sounds like something that would take up a summer to be
implemented too.
Also, I wish to discuss a bit about its implementation with the core
members too, and see if what I have in mind is resonating with their
opinions.
It would be great to hear from them.
Thanks again.
shredpub
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Marc Sabatella <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 3/17/2014 3:06 AM, Ruchit Agrawal wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> > So following is a list of ideas that I have for GSOC project:
> > 1) Music Accompaniment feature for MuseScore
> > 2) Score similarity detector
> > 3) Speech recognizer and processor engine
> > 4) Fretboard/keyboard viewer
>
> I should preface this by saying I'm not a "core developer" and have no
> idea what my role, if any, might be in the decision-making process. But
> since I'm a potential mentor, I figure my opinion is worth something at
> least.
>
> I definitely support #1 if it is accomplished through integration with
> Impro-Visor or some other similar software. Actually building
> sophisticated accompaniment features into MuseScore is rather out of
> scope, and building unsophisticated accompaniment features into
> MuseScore is perhaps not worth the effort. The goal for me is so I
> could create a score that left rhythm section parts as chord symbols and
> slashes (eg, a typical jazz or rock band arrangement) but when I hit
> "play", some automatic accompaniment was provided so I could get a
> better idea of how my score will really sound when played by real
> musicians.
>
> For #3, there is absolutely no way I can see speech recognition having
> anything whatsoever to do with MuseScore. To me, that's a complete
> non-starter. As discussed earlier, speech recognition is a completely
> separately project that is more OS-level. Now, the idea of having some
> sort of console window in MuseScore where you could enter commands as
> text - whether that text is generated by your fingers on a keyboard or
> by your favorite completely separate speech-to-text utility is
> completely - is moderately interesting, if a bit esoteric. I think more
> useful than being able to *enter commands* this way would be the ability
> to *ask questions* - to search the online help. Again, though, this
> seems decidedly like a totally separate thing to me: a general purpose
> online help system. I really can't see any reason why a music notation
> program should be trying to solve this kind of problem independently.
> There are enough problems left to solve that actually relate to music
> notation.
>
> The other two could potentially be interesting depending on where you
> went with them. Score similarity detection seems like an interesting
> research project in itself; the trick would be figuring out what the
> practical application would be that made it seem relevant. As I
> mentioned before, it seems perhaps something more useful for
> musescore.com than for MuseScore itself, but that is not necessarily a
> deal-breaker. The fretboard/keyboard viewer seems like a gimmick to me
> unless it actually were part of some sort of teaching facility, which
> starts to feel out of scope again. On the other hand, Finale has
> "SmartMusic", which I've never really looked at so I don't know what it
> does, but I guess it is somehow related and appears to be successful.
> For MuseScore to make real inroads into schools, some sort of associated
> education tools could help. But I'm pretty sure the fretboard/keyboard
> viewer isn't where I'd *start* if that were my goal. So I'm back to
> thinking of it as a minor gimmick.
>
> I tend to be focused on making MuseScore better at its primary purpose:
> creating scores. Things that make the playback sound better for the
> purpose of checking your work or generating demos are good too. Things
> that try to turn MuseScore into some sort of generalized practice tool
> seem out of scope to me, even if, again, I could see this being a future
> direction for companion products.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
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