Jeff Bigler wrote:
You have to put each P: field in all of the voices if you want to
control playing order.
Same goes for M: and K: fields (assuming that you want all the voices
to change metre and key at the same point).
The latter pair is actually useful for some picese. To give a
As you prob know I'm one extremely happy abc user. Yesterday I showed a
friend of mine my songbook, and he liked it, but had to ask If abc is so
cool, how come I haven't heard of it? Anyways I tried to give me a couple
of reasons to get into abc, but I prob missed some good ones, so please
make
Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
* free
* stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
really possible using Finale
* runs on any platform
* small file size
* works on my Palm (and I typed quite a few songs during public
transportation)
* speed? I
| Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
| * free
| * stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
| really possible using Finale
| * runs on any platform
| * small file size
| * works on my Palm (and I typed quite a few songs during public
| transportation)
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
As you prob know I'm one extremely happy abc user. Yesterday I showed a
friend of mine my songbook, and he liked it, but had to ask If abc is so
cool, how come I haven't heard of it? Anyways I tried to give me a couple
of reasons to get into abc,
Phil == Phil Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Phil The only faster way to get music into a computer is to play it on
Phil a midi keyboard, and even then you are usually going to have to
Phil do a lot of post entry editing.
The people I know who claim to be really fast in Finale use
Atte Andre Jensen wrote
*formatting is seperated from the music itself
*anything else* is separated from the music information itself.
I would say, this is the most important thing. All other resons
are based on this one in some way.
The information is now a kind of stream-format which
On 4 Jun 2002, Laura Conrad wrote:
snip
In ABC, I think I'm faster when I'm typing in the octave that
doesn't use the capital letters, and I'm certainly faster when I don't
have to enter the commas or the apostrophes.
So is anyone working on an ABC application that allows this?
Or better
Laura Conrad wrote
Atte Or better (IMHO): an interface that works the way lily
Atte works. That is the note is asumed to be the closed to the
Atte previous one.
I disagree -- that makes the notes too context dependant, so you can't
just cut and paste a snippet into an email.
You have to put each P: field in all of the voices if you want
to control playing order.
Same goes for M: and K: fields (assuming that you want all the
voices to change metre and key at the same point).
The latter pair is actually useful for some picese.
Yes, even Bach did it. One of the
On 4 Jun 2002, Laura Conrad wrote:
Atte == Atte Andre Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Atte So instead of:
Atte CDEF | GABc | c2G2 | c2C2 | c2c2 |
Atte you do:
Atte Cdef | gabc | c2g2 | c2c,2 | c'2c2 |
Now a data entry mechanism that took your second line and turned it
Atte: speed? I think I'm faster in abc than I used to be in encore, but I'm
not sure...
Phil: When using a graphical music editor to type music in from a score,
this is what you spend most time doing:
*Look at the score, see that the next note is A and it's 1/8.
etc
OUCH! Get Muse!
OK - I
I haven't had the opportunity to try to encode anything yet, but I look forward to
doing
so. I'm saving the tons of posts from everyone so I can go back through for hints on
various things when I do get to that point.
I have downloaded various things and used abc2Win and whatever behind the
At 10:44 AM 06-04-2002 -0700, Don Parrish-Bell you wrote:
I haven't had the opportunity to try to encode anything yet, but I look
forward to doing
so. I'm saving the tons of posts from everyone so I can go back through
for hints on
various things when I do get to that point.
One thing to keep
Frank Nordberg wrote:
| John Chambers wrote:
| One of my favorite ways to test music software is to attempt to enter
| some of the better-known Balkan songs. For instance, Jovano, Jovanke,
| which wants a meter of 7/8 and a key signature of one sharp and two
| flats (^f_B_e). It's a
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Frank Nordberg wrote:
Hmmm, I feel a bit bad about spoiling the party, but:
Oh, just as we were padding each other so gently on the back, you naughty
you :-)
* stuff like my songbook (server generated pdf's in 12 keys) are AFAIK not
really possible using Finale
That
Buddha Buck wrote:
At 10:44 AM 06-04-2002 -0700, Don Parrish-Bell you wrote:
I haven't had the opportunity to try to encode anything yet, but I look
forward to doing
so. I'm saving the tons of posts from everyone so I can go back through
for hints on
various things when I do get to that
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Don Parrish-Bell wrote:
---Actually I was referring to the horizontal spacing for each measure. Even in PDF
format, the sheet music seems a bit cramped when you print it out. I suppose what
I'm
really after, then, is a formating tool with preferences I can tinker with.
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Yes, MusicTime definitely has some weird little quirks, but for $25.00 it wasn't too
bad.
It doesn't do TAB at all and it won't let you write a lyric chord sheet. Also it's
not
OLE-compatible, so you can't take a passage out of it and paste it into Word, for
example. My wife has used it
Muse sounds interesting.
Laurie (ukonline) wrote:
Don Parrish-Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] had a wish-list.
Here's how Muse shapes up (no, it's not 100%, though if I were a beginner
user I might think it was until I discovered the fine details).
1. Enter guitar TAB, tool creates sheet music and
The only part of ABC that I could see that would affect how cramped
together a peice of music would look in staff notation is the length of
individual lines. Most ABC to Staff converters I know of do not break
lines of ABC into multiple lines of staff notation. Obviously, the same
piece of
When touch-typing abc you don't spend much time looking at the screen,
so the equivalent is:
*Look at the score, see that the next note is A and it's 1/8.
*Hit the Shift and A keys without taking your eyes off the score.
No competition.
Of course if you are entering a tune out
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