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Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art? |
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Tue, 9 Aug 2022 11:44:57 -0400 |
Hi Carl!
Do you remember off-hand how polychords were handled in the GSoC code?
What was the syntax? Could it handle more than two in the stack? etc.
Thanks,
Kieren.
> On Aug 9, 2022, at 11:14 AM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren@kierenmacmillan.info>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Valentin,
>
>> In my opinion the main issue here is that the chord naming strategy
>> of first transforming theoretical respesentation of a chord into
>> a bunch of notes to then have some function try to make sense
>> of that and turn in again into a theoretical representation of a chord
>> is absolute madness if we do actually already know how this chord should
>> look.
>>
>> Suppose we had a different way of specifying chords not as a bunch of notes,
>> but in a representation that preserves the theoretical meaning of such a
>> chord.
>
> The GSoC chord work was moving in exactly that direction!
>
>> This way we could have a transposable syntax to say e.g. des|c
>
> Well, we wouldn't want to overload the bar-check feature, of course! ;)
>
> Maybe you're interested in picking up the GSoC chord ball and taking it
> across the goal line? In mid-September, I might have a little more bandwidth
> to sit down with Carl again and try it myself… but given my track record, I'd
> be more optimistic about the outcome if there were multiple developers
> working with me.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, (continued)
Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Valentin Petzel, 2022/08/09
Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Lukas-Fabian Moser, 2022/08/09
Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Thomas Morley, 2022/08/14
Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Kieren MacMillan, 2022/08/09
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?,
Kieren MacMillan <=
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/08/09
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Kieren MacMillan, 2022/08/09
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/08/09
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, David Kastrup, 2022/08/09
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Kieren MacMillan, 2022/08/09
- Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?, Carl Sorensen, 2022/08/09