Phil Taylor wrote -
>BarFly handles chords with notes of unequal
>length by padding out the shorter notes with rests when playing,
>so it's "longest note prevails".
But Jack Campin (a BarFly user) had said -
>but the semantics I'd need in every instance
>where I've wanted it would be that the *shortest* note counts.
PT -
>The chord gets drawn on a single
>stem though, so if you have an eighth and a sixteenth in the same
>chord the result looks like two sixteenths, as they're both drawn
>on a stem with two tails.
Not what the writer asked for.
>The way to deal with this, I suppose, is
>to draw two separate notes with tails in opposite directions, but
>then what do you do if there is more than two notes in the chord?
That's what Abacus does and having just had a play with it, seems to handle
it fairly well. If you have a sandwhich (middle note shorter or longer than
top and bottom) and all notes are a quarter or less it gets in a bit of a
twist but how often does that get done? (And how would conventional notation
deal with it?)
>On the whole, I'd prefer it if people
>either used as many voices as necessary to represent the music,
but since there's no agreement on how to implement voices....
>or used ties, i.e. [B2D2-]D2 instead of [B2D4].
which would sound the same but look different when converted to
notation.
>Using unequal notes in chords just leads to too many ambiguities.
Noteworthy Composer does it and I'm basically cribbing what it does. Does
anybody know what other packages do?
Bryan Creer
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