<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/8 João Pais <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmmmpais@googlemail.com">jmmmpais@googlemail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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About the scale, do you have problems with midi note? I believe this<br>
would be the most compatible with other functions.<br>
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Well, normally I use midi note numbers or a transposed version thereof<br>
(especially : midi note minus a multiple of 12), but in this case, I have<br>
only implemented «white keys», and then, I wonder what you expect the<br>
interface to be, to implement the «black keys», and whether those numbers<br>
should be displayed as dièse or bémol.<br>
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I think I will use the vertical space as something as equally divided as<br>
possible into midi notes, and then display all of them as either unaltered<br>
or dièse. Later, the latter part can be modified to show notes in any<br>
other chosen scale, maybe...<br>
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And I want an option to hide the clef de Sol (thinking of it in the<br>
context of using it as a [#many] component, hypothesising a future in<br>
which [#many] supports an abstraction name as its $1).<br>
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don't forget that chromatic pitches is just a small fraction of what's available. then there's quarter-, eight-, sixteenth-, etc. tones (just to say some for which there exist already notation standards), "natural" tunings (harmonic series), other tunings, cent notation...<br>
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as I see it, no notation object is complete without being possible to incorporate these as well (I didn't download your object yet, so didn't see how you do it).<br></blockquote><div><br>If i'm not mistaken, in PWGL and OpenMusic the user can choose if he or she wants to display all the notes as sharps (dièse) or flats (bémol) and then change each note to its enharmonic pair if wanted. What I supouse would be the best choice is to have a kind of message that you send to the object with the following options:<br>
- all "black notes" as sharps. suggestion: [accidental sharp<<br>- all "black notes" as flats. suggestion: [accidental flat<<br>- wich note I want in wich way. suggestion: [accidental 1 0 1 0 0 < meaning c-sharp, e-flat, f-sharp, a-flat and b-flat.<br>
What would be extremely nice is if the user could change those options after the note is displayed, dynamically.<br><br>In the case of microtones, again, if I'm not mistaken, in those CAC softwares the user can choose between:<br>
- Display the quarter-tone default symbols(<a href="http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Image:Partial_accidentals.gif">http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Image:Partial_accidentals.gif</a>) if its just quarter tone what the user wants<br>
- Display the arrowed accidentals for "more-than-sharp", "less-than-natural", etc. (see attached picture, made with lilypond) and display a number at the right of the note wich I don't remember if it is the frequency in Herz or the midi pitch as in, for instance, 60.3. I personally prefer the second option, but I believe that in the perfect tool the user could choose between the two.<br>
<br>I didn't try the object yet because I didn't have the chance to try to compile gridflow 9.13. I never done this before, but I'll try to do it today. Anyway, this [note] object seems the most promissing of the choices presented here (I feel that of course because its the closest to what I had in mind, maybe in the future the community will choose something different). Thank you Mathieu!<br>
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