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) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
