Julie S wrote: > The microtonal stuff sounds great. It would be nice to get that up and > going. > > It sounds like at great addition to what everyone was scratching their > head over to be the big "reason" to switch to the new port of Rosegarden. > I'll leave it at that and see what Chris, Michael, etc. think about that > idea.
My take on both the microtonal stuff and the non-tempered stuff, or even tablature, is that if somebody else can make all of it work without getting in the way of what more typical people want to do with Rosegarden, more power to them. I'm not opposed to this kind of pushing the envelope, but we have quite enough trouble just getting the fundamentals of ordinary 12ET notation right. Until I'm satisfied in that area, that will always be a higher priority for me (eg. this business with our underperforming barlines that limit notation in quite catastrophic ways.) On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Dougie McGilvray wrote: > The conversion would have to come from within RG because to map from one > tuning to the other requires MIDI + accidental. We'd have to start with some pretty clear requirements for what kind of new accidentals, etc., and then think about how it could all be fit into the scheme of things in the least obtrusive way possible. Also, from the top, is it possible to do either kind of notation with LilyPond at all? I have no idea, but if the answer is no, that's a contraindication right off the top. Our in-house printing engine has never worked very well, and it will probably be eliminated in favor of total dependence on LilyPond for printed output. If LilyPond can't print it, we should avoid doing it. If LilyPond can do it (which is probably pretty likely overall, since they're very flexible and feature-packed) then we have to think about the mechanics of getting that to work as part of the whole package here. However, I really can't get interested in any of this while we're still falling on our face at something as simple and reasonable as notating exercises out of the old 1864 Arban's method book. I'm much more concerned with getting such basics right, if we can actually ever manage that. I'll never have any use for either microtonal notation or non-ET notation of any other flavor, unless I just want to print something to scare the hell out of my children, who have quite enough trouble mastering the everyday 12ET stuff most people use. That's not a lot of incentive for sleepless nights spent at a job that pays zippity doo, and I'm not willing to stretch myself very far at all to accommodate any of this. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
