[PD] Musical notation object on Pd

[Ed Kelly]

Yep, you're probably right. I hate this project already, since it's given me a 
summer of frustration while I attempt to look after a 1-year old child while 
trying to get my head around segmented counts and automatically adjusted beams. 
The latter is solved, the former is in an emacs window next to this one.

I'm just in a bit too deep to get out now! If I'd known about inscore before I 
started, I probably would have gone down that path. It doesn't seem to have a 
Linux compile method though...and I don't have a Mac...and the player does.

Best,
Ed


> of course you shouldn't send any cryptical commands to anyone who isn't 
>interested in getting
> them. But for example packaging inscore into the same folder as your patch, and 
>starting it (it's a
> separate application) isn't that hard to manage in Pd, and not something that's 
>hard to organise. as 
>
> long as the patch works on its own, the players don't really care what's 
>happening inside.


> you're free to do what you want, I would myself not even venture into such a 
>project, because there 
>
> are already several resources available that might be more efficient on doing 
>the same (or even a 
>
> better) job.


>> Since there are already some projects going through in this area (e.g. pwgl 
or
>> inscore), wouldn't it
>> make sense to try to integrate with these, or try to help them, instead of
>> reinventing the wheel?
> 
> 
> Perhaps, but consider this:
> 
> The performer I am working with is a percussionist, and excellent at
> sight-reading music. However, he's not by any stretch of the imagination a
> programmer, and the idea of giving him command-line compilation issues to deal
> with, or complex connectivity between packages, would kill the project 
straight
> away. From me he needs to receive, via email, a PD patch that will just work. 
>If
> other libraries are "wrapped" into PD i.e. externals are made and integrated
> into a future PD-extended, then these might provide some practical options for
> me to work with classical musicians who aren't programmers (and the majority 
of
> them are not). However, for the time being I am limited to that which can be
> rendered by the current PD-extended straight out of the (in)box, without any
> modifications to the computer it is running on.
> 
> That is why I'm building a system that uses just GEM and a truetype font, 
which
> can be made into a single package and distributed to the performer of my 
piece.
> If I had institutional support perhaps I could envisage something more complex
> to work, but I have been unlucky in that respect. I could either give up, or 
>try
> to find a practical solution that works both for me and for a non-computer 
geek
> classically trained player. I choose the latter because I want to make music.
> 
> Best,
> Ed
> 
> 
> 
> 


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