Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-03 Thread ChurchOrganist
1) The instruments.xml file contains entries for: A) bass guitar, B) acoustic bass, C) electric bass. Are they 3 different instruments or A) is just a generic name for both B) and C)? The three plucked bass entries are there for compatibilty with the MusicXML 3 sound list. In practical terms A

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-03 Thread ChurchOrganist
Where have you got this init tag from?? It's not present in the latest version of instruments xml. The description tag is actually there for the purpose of defining the instrument. There is also a TrackName tag which is for defining the name in the mixer. HTH - Regards Michael -- View

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-03 Thread Andrei Tuicu
2014-06-03 5:02 GMT+03:00 Marc Sabatella m...@outsideshore.com: On 06/02/2014 05:46 PM, Andrei Tuicu wrote: I agree with Marc, fretless basses should have in my opinion tabs, but for me it makes sense to have tabs for acoustic basses, contrabasses, even violins. For me, if I can draw

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-03 Thread Maurizio M. Gavioli
About the lt:initgt; tag, see for instance: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/share/templates/instruments.xml#L7934 -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/Bass-guitars-in-instruments-xml-tp7578800p7578822.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-03 Thread Maurizio M. Gavioli
AndreiTuicu wrote The number of strings that are set in the staff properties should match the number of lines from the tab. No, it should not. There is plenty of instruments for which the number of strings is different from the number of tab lines, for instance most of the lute models (and most

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-03 Thread Marc Sabatella
On 06/03/2014 04:19 AM, Andrei Tuicu wrote: Moreover, there are a lot of guitarists (more then half of the guitarists/electric bass players I know) that never learned standard notation, so they will not be able to write scores for other instruments if at some point they need to. Point

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-03 Thread Andrei Tuicu
@Marc Moreover, there are a lot of guitarists (more then half of the guitarists/electric bass players I know) that never learned standard notation, so they will not be able to write scores for other instruments if at some point they need to. Point taken, but still, if tab is the only

[Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-02 Thread Maurizio M. Gavioli
And now about basses and bass guitars. 1) The instruments.xml file contains entries for: A) bass guitar, B) acoustic bass, C) electric bass. Are they 3 different instruments or A) is just a generic name for both B) and C)? 2) *MIDI*: They are assigned 3 different MIDI channels: A) 34, B) 32, C)

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-02 Thread Maurizio M. Gavioli
Marc, thanks for the reply. Now that you say it, I think I remember having read about this equivalence acoustic bass lt;=gt; contrabass in another thread either here on the ML or in the fora. Just to avoid future repetitions of the question, I think I will change the acoustic bass entry in this

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-02 Thread Marc Sabatella
On 06/02/2014 02:46 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote: Does tab make sense on fretless string instruments? No tab, no stringdata needed, right? Accoustic bass would (always?) be fretless, bass guitar and electric bass usually not. Acoustic basses are indeed virtually always fretless. At most I've

Re: [Mscore-developer] Bass guitars in instruments.xml

2014-06-02 Thread Marc Sabatella
On 06/02/2014 03:08 PM, Maurizio M. Gavioli wrote: lt;Instrument id=acoustic-bassgt; nbsp; nbsp; lt;initgt;contrabasslt;/initgt; I'm not clear on the function of the init tag, but assuming it means something like, inherits some info from or shares some info with, that's fine. [Side note: