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

[Richard Shann]

I've added a picture of abbreviated notes to the denemo.org website.

Nils - I was trying to put this in the Screenshots section (as it is not
news). I went to the screenshots tab, and then did "create content", but
it created News. Edit on the screenshots tab doesn't seem to be offering
to take images??
Richard


On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 17:12 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> 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:
> > 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > 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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