On Monday 18 June 2001 12:19, Frank Nordberg wrote:
> Sorry Steve, your way behind modern times too. Fact is, we already have
> perfectly good (or so the ads say) ways to get computers to compose and
> play the music without any subjective and emotional human interference
> at all.
Yeah, seems y
Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Steve Mansfield wrote:
>>
>> But at the end of the day if your OS of choice supports the creation of
>> ASCII characters in a file you've got all the tools you need to generate
>> abc.
>
>Mmm. But the ability to do something with i
Frank Nordberg writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
| > One of my favorite test cases for music software is the tune at:
| >
| > http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Intl/tune/JovanoJovanke_D.abc
| > http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Intl/tune/JovanoJovanke_E.abc
|
| Nice one :-)
Yeah; it's a pr
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Steve Mansfield wrote:
>
> But at the end of the day if your OS of choice supports the creation of
> ASCII characters in a file you've got all the tools you need to generate
> abc.
Mmm. But the ability to do something with it is nice, too. Is this a new
wave of fundamental
John Chambers wrote:
>
> One of my favorite test cases for music software is the tune at:
>
> http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Intl/tune/JovanoJovanke_D.abc
> http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Intl/tune/JovanoJovanke_E.abc
Nice one :-)
I made a quick Finale file out of the first o
On Sunday 17 June 2001 14:19, Steve Mansfield wrote:
> Atte André Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> >On Friday 15 June 2001 11:20, Phil Taylor wrote:
> >> I could equally claim that BarFly is the de facto standard on the
> >> grounds that it runs on the platform which is the de facto standard f
Atte writes:
| On Friday 15 June 2001 11:20, Phil Taylor wrote:
| > I could equally claim that BarFly is the de facto standard on the grounds
| > that it runs on the platform which is the de facto standard for music
| > production
|
| I didn't know BarFly ran on Linux :-)
Maybe it doesn't now, bu
Atte André Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>On Friday 15 June 2001 11:20, Phil Taylor wrote:
>
>> I could equally claim that BarFly is the de facto standard on the grounds
>> that it runs on the platform which is the de facto standard for music
>> production
>
>I didn't know BarFly ran on Linux
On Friday 15 June 2001 11:20, Phil Taylor wrote:
> I could equally claim that BarFly is the de facto standard on the grounds
> that it runs on the platform which is the de facto standard for music
> production
I didn't know BarFly ran on Linux :-)
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Phil Taylor writes:
| I have over 10,000 tunes on my machine, downloaded from all over the web,
| and less than 5% of them have exclamation marks at the ends of the lines.
Some time ago, I had my tune finder's search bot tell me statistics
about such things, and my numbers were about the same.
I guess you must be an abc2win user then Gianni?
>As we both know - as anybody else on this list, for the matter! -
>ABC2WIN is "de facto" the standard as far as the abc notation is
>employed on the web, both as far as the mailing list and a number of
>the abc collections of tunes available fo
On 13/06/01 at 0.20 John Chambers wrote:
>>Gianni Cunich writes:
>>
>>| Sorry, but I actually got bored about the discussion about the abc2midi
>>behaviour...so bored I actually felt sick!
>>...
>>| The "real" problem, IMO, is a totally different one: is there anybody
>who actually cares about
>
> Depending on the specific hornpipe, the ratio of a hornpipe's small
> notes can range from 3:2 to 3:1. A 2:1 ratio is the most common, of
> course, which is why some people say that hornpipes should be written
> in 12/8 or 12/16 rather than 4/4. It could be useful if a midi
> gene
Richard Robinson wrote:
| On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jack Campin wrote:
| > > My understanding of the a>b construct is
| > > that it is specially for hornpipes
| >
| > Your understanding is wrong.
| >
| > Hornpipes don't need any such notation. They are often written in even
| > length notes with the c
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jack Campin wrote:
> > My understanding of the a>b construct is
> > that it is specially for hornpipes
>
> Your understanding is wrong.
>
> Hornpipes don't need any such notation. They are often written in even
> length notes with the context telling the user to swing them
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, James Allwright wrote:
>
> I have to disagree strongly here. My understanding of the a>b construct is
> that it is specially for hornpipes and so you can use it for a 2:1 ratio
> if that is what you want elsewhere. If you want 3:1, then you can write
> a3/2b/2.
My understand
I'm assuming your tongue is firmly in cheek here, but a couple of things
are useful to mention:
- traditional tunes are often notated differently than they are played.
Hornpipes are a good example, since they can be written straight and
played dotted (Note: I am not talking about abc, just about d
> "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
James> My understanding of the a>b construct is that it is
James> specially for hornpipes and so you can use it for a 2:1
James> ratio if that is what you want elsewhere. If you want 3:1,
James> then you can write a3/2b/
On Tue 12 Jun 2001 at 09:29PM +0200, Gianni Cunich wrote:
> Sorry, but I actually got bored about the discussion about the abc2midi
>behaviour...so bored I actually felt sick!
>
> The problem about the way abc2midi handles the broken rythms shortcut is that it
>actually playes (and "save as" mi
Gianni Cunich writes:
| Sorry, but I actually got bored about the discussion about the abc2midi
|behaviour...so bored I actually felt sick!
...
| The "real" problem, IMO, is a totally different one: is there anybody who actually
|cares about the respect of the standard anymore?
|
| I assume th
Sorry, but I actually got bored about the discussion about the abc2midi behaviour...so
bored I actually felt sick!
The problem about the way abc2midi handles the broken rythms shortcut is that it
actually playes (and "save as" midi) any beat using the ">" symbol as a triplet, even
if in the R:
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