Re: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:56:35PM +, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I figured I'd do it in two steps: 1. Create a function that takes a chord of three notes, and formats each note(head) appropriately. 2. Modify the function to take one or two notes, and generate the other parts of the

RE: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hey Graham, No help on the technical issues, but as a string player, I generally see harmonics as only two notes (the bottom two). The first time I saw three notes was in a Stravinski orchestral part, and it took me a moment to figure out what it was. Could you also invent a two-note

creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Top posting is often superior to bottom-posting. [Sorry... the web email interface I'm forced to use while my MacBook is in for repairs clearly messed up the last post, so I'm forced to used gmane. =\] Hello, all! I'm trying to come up with a Scheme function to generate string harmonics

Re: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/15 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: I'm trying to come up with a Scheme function to generate string harmonics automatically. Why on earth would you want to do that. ;) You might like to take a look at Valentin's function here (though it uses separate voices):

RE: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Neil, Thanks for the help. Tricky without another voice, since there's only one stem for all the noteheads. You can change the length of a stem by overriding 'length, but you'd need to be careful about stem direction because negative values will be required, and you won't be able to

Re: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/15 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Hi Neil, Thanks for the help. Tricky without another voice, since there's only one stem for all the noteheads. You can change the length of a stem by overriding 'length, but you'd need to be careful about stem direction because