Re: [discuss] Future element?
René Bjerre Andersen wrote: No software in the world can do what I need it to do. I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can sometime be a bit troublesome as I have to use color-coding. E.g. if I change all G-chords in the text below (I'm Moving On - Rascal Flats) I get an intro like this D C D - I can't tell if it's right or I still have to transpose the last D-chord to an A... Intro G C D (Piano |: G – G/f# - Em – G/d – C2 – D7sus4 :|) G I've dealt with my ghosts an’ I've faced all my demons C D Fin’ly content with the past I regret If I had a function in OO where I could choose the key of the song in e.g. a dropdown menu and every chord is an object that can be locked to a specific place in the lyrics. Then this object could be changed according to the chosen key - or if I change the key (=transpose it). Furthermore, if the chord-object is locked to a specific place I can change font-style and -size etc. without changing their relative position - as have happened in the example above. If someone could programme this feature into OO, he or she would forever be included in my evening prayers! ;-) René Andersen Denmark I am sure such a function will never appear in any office suite. The only way that any software will ever be offered is if a company that makes software for musicians decides that there is enough of a market for it to pay for its development, or if a musician who also dabbles in computer programming decides to spend the time writing it for his or her own use, and then makes it available FOSS for others. But as part of an office suite, I seriously doubt it will ever happen. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [discuss] Future element?
On 02/11/2011 08:07 AM, René Bjerre Andersen wrote: No software in the world can do what I need it to do. I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can sometime be a bit troublesome as I have to use color-coding. E.g. if I change all G-chords in the text below (I'm Moving On - Rascal Flats) I get an intro like this D C D - I can't tell if it's right or I still have to transpose the last D-chord to an A... LilyPond should do what you want. It's free. http://lilypond.org/index.html Paul Scott Intro G C D (Piano |: G – G/f# - Em – G/d – C2 – D7sus4 :|) G I've dealt with my ghosts an’ I've faced all my demons C D Fin’ly content with the past I regret If I had a function in OO where I could choose the key of the song in e.g. a dropdown menu and every chord is an object that can be locked to a specific place in the lyrics. Then this object could be changed according to the chosen key - or if I change the key (=transpose it). Furthermore, if the chord-object is locked to a specific place I can change font-style and -size etc. without changing their relative position - as have happened in the example above. If someone could programme this feature into OO, he or she would forever be included in my evening prayers! ;-) René Andersen Denmark -- Paul Scott Librarian Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
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On 2/11/2011 10:07 AM, René Bjerre Andersen wrote: No software in the world can do what I need it to do. I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can sometime be a bit troublesome as I have to use color-coding. E.g. if I change all G-chords in the text below (I'm Moving On - Rascal Flats) I get an intro like this D C D - I can't tell if it's right or I still have to transpose the last D-chord to an A... Intro G C D (Piano |: G -- G/f# - Em -- G/d -- C2 -- D7sus4 :|) G I've dealt with my ghosts an' I've faced all my demons C D Fin'ly content with the past I regret If I had a function in OO where I could choose the key of the song in e.g. a dropdown menu and every chord is an object that can be locked to a specific place in the lyrics. Then this object could be changed according to the chosen key - or if I change the key (=transpose it). Furthermore, if the chord-object is locked to a specific place I can change font-style and -size etc. without changing their relative position - as have happened in the example above. If someone could programme this feature into OO, he or she would forever be included in my evening prayers! ;-) René Andersen Denmark Some years ago I wrote a macro for Microsoft Word that made this conversion. It wasn't without bugs, but most of the time it worked OK. If it would be useful, I might be able to find it for you. -- *Paul Cohen*
Re: [discuss] Future element?
On 11/02/2011 15:07, René Bjerre Andersen wrote: No software in the world can do what I need it to do. I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can sometime be a bit troublesome as I have to use color-coding. E.g. if I change all G-chords in the text below (I'm Moving On - Rascal Flats) I get an intro like this D C D - I can't tell if it's right or I still have to transpose the last D-chord to an A... (NB you're not subscribed to this mailing list - there's at least one answer that you'll probably have missed as a result! See www.openoffice.org for more info on the openoffice mail lists) There's quite a lot about. Someone else has mentioned lilypond, which may be a bit heavy duty. (I'm almost sure there's a gui editor to go with this, but can't remember the name offhand.) It might be worth looking at abcm2ps, which offers a lighter-duty non-gui approach to music typesetting, along with abc2abc which will do transpositions for you. I know there's a least one 'fake book' program, which will do chord transpositions (and even recommend guitar capo position) and output a more-or-less usable odf file. There must be others, I'm sure. If £££ don't matter, there's always the likes of Sibelius! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2011 15:07, René Bjerre Andersen wrote: > No software in the world can do what I need it to do. Both _Sibelius_ and _Finale_ can do what you described. ABCEdit (Music Editor) does the same thing, but only if you use ABC notation. Depending upon your music notation requirements, ABC might not be suitable for you. If you have the music in MIDIformat, then MidiTransform can do what you request. On 13/02/2011 19:38, Paul Scott wrote: > LilyPond should do what you want. Lilypond is for music typesetting. It doesn't do scale transformations. jonathon - -- email sent to this with email address with a precedence of other than bulk, or list, are forwarded to Dave Null, unread. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNWRu2AAoJEDqP6lg9AbnKBeAH/2pXydd6EtpL0vitMiQGLC5v 1y4zBNS+cuRcW9/v36vME/mOcEP/pkrUYWVTNlDG23CSBbWUqaEgblPqnUFTWhy8 ymd9cyil6gArgdLB+x1Zfs8NPrc6OE2FsxZNsGhryIXjB9EjLewtlWo9D2pZc2NH lHihj+P+i5Bq2sjOqZ+BfDC7bKplwAuKZH5/PC9esaOTE0/uMf+A/4JFUcYz2iBY 4/4JZlhLK+iWbZO9ljSEVxAy/qeIOmauMbzgP02S9iYqqa1BJqc/WOAkqG4FAjg4 GbL4EpwzucYfBNko6jAhJggoUXTMvNO5rBtIdTkQx8WNv6ze4aoxBsgYCI20s1Y= =bNPX -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [discuss] Future element?
[Apologies for the top post!] Because you are not subscribed to this list, you may have missed some responses. To see your message and all the responses, you can go to http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/Future-element-tt3303908.html On 2/11/2011 9:07 AM, René Bjerre Andersen wrote: No software in the world can do what I need it to do. I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can sometime be a bit troublesome as I have to use color-coding. E.g. if I change all G-chords in the text below (I'm Moving On - Rascal Flats) I get an intro like this D C D - I can't tell if it's right or I still have to transpose the last D-chord to an A... Intro G C D (Piano |: G – G/f# - Em – G/d – C2 – D7sus4 :|) G I've dealt with my ghosts an’ I've faced all my demons C D Fin’ly content with the past I regret If I had a function in OO where I could choose the key of the song in e.g. a dropdown menu and every chord is an object that can be locked to a specific place in the lyrics. Then this object could be changed according to the chosen key - or if I change the key (=transpose it). Furthermore, if the chord-object is locked to a specific place I can change font-style and -size etc. without changing their relative position - as have happened in the example above. If someone could programme this feature into OO, he or she would forever be included in my evening prayers! ;-) René Andersen Denmark - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
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That would be great. I'm not very good at programming but I'm trying to learn so my student might try... René --- Some years ago I wrote a macro for Microsoft Word that made this conversion. It wasn't without bugs, but most of the time it worked OK. If it would be useful, I might be able to find it for you. -- *Paul Cohen* - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
SV: [discuss] Future element?
Finale, Sibelius and LilyPond doesn't have the function I need. Yes, they can all transpose a song to a different key, but I only want the lyrics and chords. All these programs have to have the notes plotted to be able to transpose the song --> chords. I have access to both Finale and Sibelius. I also know PriMus (aka Score Perfect) - but same problem... René - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
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Hi René, René Bjerre Andersen wrote (14-02-11 19:47) Finale, Sibelius and LilyPond doesn't have the function I need. Yes, they LilyPond is open source. So maybe you can find someone who is interested to help :-) Regards, Cor -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
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On 14/02/2011 19:40, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi René, René Bjerre Andersen wrote (14-02-11 19:47) Finale, Sibelius and LilyPond doesn't have the function I need. Yes, they LilyPond is open source. So maybe you can find someone who is interested to help :-) Regards, Cor This now seems well OT for this list :-( If the OP wishes, can install perl, and promises /absolutely/ to neither criticize the remarkably untidy code ( :-) ) nor ask for support, I could send my fake book script. It handles lyrics and chords, will transpose as needed and produces a usable-if-not-the-best text or odf file as output from a could-probably-be-simpler input. Otherwise, I'd suggest using abc-formatted input and abc2abc (it's a freebie). Which will happily convert, say, X: 1 M:4/4 T:test piece C:Mike % K:A % "A" "B" "Bb" "C" to (up a tone) X: 1 M:4/4 T:test piece C:Mike % K:B % "B" "C#" "C" "D" Somewhat laborious, but at least you'd get the chords done. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
