On Wednesday 21 December 2005 13:08, Rob wrote:
> On Wed December 21 2005 00:15, I. I. Ooisen wrote:
> > > I'm a composer too, but the only time I generate a score is
> > > when someone wants to play my stuff in real life. There's
> > > no need for 18th century notation if you're doing it all
> > > yourself in the digital realm.
> >
> > is there any more modern musical notation system which you
> > think preferable? (i am seriously interested)
>
> If you mean "notation in which to print out my own music".... I
> don't need to. I can burn a CD.
>
> If you mean "notation in which to manipulate notes within the
> app".... as I said in another post, I think I'd like a
> high-level, non-LISP-like programming language I could use to
> code my songs. Lacking that, the commonly used piano roll
> notation is certainly the most intuitive. (Yes, I did have
> piano lessons as a kid and yes, I did learn how to read music.
> Piano roll notation still makes more sense to me, especially
> when I start transposing.)
>
> If I were a band or orchestra leader, it'd be different... but
> I'm not. I'm one guy with a bunch of instruments and a computer
> that will record me playing all of them by ear.
>
> Rob
also, please take a look at this comparison:
http://www.islandnet.com/~chroma/
(it's just an example)
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