Re: Fw: Re: [Denemo-devel] Percussion support

[Richard Shann]

I've added an example of Abbreviated notes in the examples gallery. The
denemo display does not show what is going to print yet, but the print
out is, I think, what you want.
It is still a little technical, doing this. With the new scripting
possibilities it should become easier.
Richard


On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 13:03 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:56:30 GMT
> From: "Edward Swanzey" <address@hidden>
> To: "Nils Gey" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re:  [Denemo-devel] Percussion support
> 
> 
> May I also add re. percussion.  The biggest problem with most other music 
> manuscripting programs is
> that there is no way to write abbreviated notes.  This is quite crucial to 
> writing classical parts and
> drum corps music.  Classical American drummers are ALL trained to interpret 
> these notes
> as rolls with specific strokes.  Abbreviated notes are:  a quarter note with 
> one slash through
> the stem becomes 2 eighths notes.  Two slashes make it 4 16th notes.  Three 
> slashes make
> the quarter note eight eighth notes.  In other words, the slash divide the 
> note whose stem it's
> on into two of it's next smaller divisions.  It is applied to ALL notes with 
> the same effect, even
> whole notes.  In classical string music, this same convention is applied, and 
> also to mandolin
> and other stringed instruments.  This is a MAJOR failure of nearly all the 
> music software
> on the market.  I am still forced to hand-write all my drum scores for 
> concert band, drum
> ensemble, and classical arrangements.
> 
> Thank you all for your hard work, this will be a great program.
> 
> Ed Swanzey
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Nils Gey" <address@hidden>
> Sent 8/24/2008 1:46:00 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Denemo-devel] Percussion support
> 
> This is nice to hear but I think some time in the future different noteheads 
> should be a native feature of Denemo.
> 
> Since Percussion Notation is absolutly not a standard (as you can see even 
> those two examples are different) it would be nice to have ways to reuse 
> drum-notations.
> 
> I want to ask if its possible for you to make a template script avaible where 
> you can change notes with others. Maybe in the end its just a table like "a2 
> to c4" while the system is intelligent enough to fulfill this example:
> 
> "a2 to c4" and "c4 to b3". Off course this should result in c4s AND b3s and 
> not only in b3s :)
> 
> With a script-template like this it would be possible to make different 
> drumsetlayout and switch between them. The number-one example is notating for 
> midi and use the same as a printout for a real drummer.
> 
> greetings with real-world examples,
> 
> Nils
> 
> 
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:53:01 +0100
> Richard Shann wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 12:47 +0100, (Snare on wishlist at denemo.org)
> > wrote:
> > > Hello Rshann,
> > >
> > > here is a small piece of my handscoring:
> > > http://notimetoloose.nl/drumscore/Drumscore.jpg
> > >
> > > And here is a bit of a professional :-)
> > > http://notimetoloose.nl/drumscore/Drumscore-pro.jpg
> > >
> > > I found that I can change the notehead in denemo to X 'es but that is a
> > > terrible job, especially with 16th on the Hihat :-)
> > You don't say why, but I just tried it and you have to change each note
> > one by one.
> > With the new scripting facility it will be easy to change all the
> > selected noteheads at once, or even create a mode where every note
> > entered has its notehead set to x
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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