Dear Jocelyn,
One of the difficulties I personally find with these typesetting
softwares is the length of time it takes to actually input the music
(either staff notation or tablature), and I generally simply write out
(staff notation) parts for the ensemble - often full/short scores or
individual parts where necessary.
So, as a relative newcomer to these, I'd be grateful for your personal
feedback on how you find the time compares between inputting (via
PC/laptop keyboard) and writing out the part(s) by hand?
regards
MH
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From: "Nelson, Jocelyn" <nels...@ecu.edu>
To: Ralf Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de>
Cc: Vihuelalist <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 1:57
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Notation software recommendations
Thanks again, Ralf!
I hope you don't mind if I forwarded your tablature tuning answer to
John Griffiths, who is also working on the same sort of project with a
singer. He downloaded MuseScore and had the same question. I think he
is also happy to find out about this software.
Jocelyn
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From: Ralf Mattes <[1]r...@mh-freiburg.de>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 12:36 PM
To: Nelson, Jocelyn
Cc: Vihuelalist
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Re=3A?=_=5BVIHUELA=5D?=_Re=3A?=
_Re=3D3A=3F=3D=5F=3D5BVIHUELA=3D5D=3F=3D?= Notation software
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Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017 17:04 CEST, "Nelson, Jocelyn"
<[2]nels...@ecu.edu> schrieb:
> Thanks so much, Ralf. I tried your advice and the tablature is just
the way I want it now.
> I'm sticking with this program because it's free and relatively easy;
And it's actually Oen Source and Free Software. Even better.
> at least I've figured it out and I'm almost done transcribing the
first song. I just ordered a numeric
> keypad for my laptop to make the tab entry faster.
Depending on how your brain is wired, you might not even need the
numeric keypad - even with italian tab
MuseScore accepts letters to enter tab.
Another secret speed entry trick of mine: get a cheap midi keyboard,
preferably with a few buttons (often
called "drum pads") and assign note value selection to those buttons.
Together with a cheap (~ 15$) food pedal
attached to the midi keyboard (I use this to advance to the next chord
in "manual real time input mode") this
makes for super-fast tab writing. Just one hint: the note->tab
postition algorythm seems to work best when you
enter the notes of a chord from top to bottom (that's something I had
to get usesd to).
It's also a good idea to read the printed manual "Mastering MuseScore",
it's writen by one of the main
developers and that way you can support further develop,ment. Or even
better: get your library to by
copy. Even so a lot of the Tab features are newer than the printed book
(the curse of fast open source
development) there are a lot of great time savers to be found.
> Your many details below are greatly appreciated.
You're wellcome.
> And many thanks to everyone else on this list. Some of these
recommended programs are beautiful and I would like to explore them in
the future.
>
> Best wishes and happy transcribing to all,
> Jocelyn
Thanks, same to you,
Ralf Mattes
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