Don Parrish-Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had a wish-list. Here's how Muse shapes up (no, it's not 100%, though if I were a beginner user I might think it was until I discovered the fine details).
> 1. Enter guitar TAB, tool creates sheet music and TAB as you go. Yes >2. Ability to add lyrics and guitar chords (text and chart format) and/or > text notes to the score Lyrics, yes, Guitar chords yes but only text format, Text notes yes and you can have any or all of these at once. >3. Ability to strip out just lyrics or lyrics and guitar chords from an > existing tune (the tune could have been written in whatever > format is native to the tool) You can get just the ly-rics eas-i-ly e-nough to paste them in-to a word pro-ces-sor but they will still contain hy-phen-a-tion to show how they are split a-cross the notes if you see what I mean. >4. Enter sheet music, tool attempts to create guitar TAB (obviously >you'll need to do some touch ups here and there to make it actually > playable) Yes, and then having fixed the odd note here and there you can tell it to have another go at the generation, interpolating between your fixed points - so that when you tell it to play some note on fret 12 it will realise that your wrist is a long way from the nut and not put the next or previous note on fret 3. That way you only need to touch up the odd note and the rest falls into place. > 5. MIDI IN/OUT (pretty standard feature, from what I see) MIDI files either way, yes Live MIDI out, yes Live MIDI in - no (because the results are not very good - just too much post-editing until/unless I get the tempo following right). > 6. Actually knows what the heck a repeat is!! A lot of things I've > tried ignore the repeats. If you mean detecting repeat in MIDI in, even from a MIDI file, this is tricky. If you mean output then yes, of course, with variant endings if need be. > 7. Doesn't require taking out a second mortgage on your house to buy it! Not many banks are interested in �20 (about $30 US) mortgages >8. Has some keyboard-shortcut method of selecting note duration instead of > having to always use the mouse. Yes > 9. Outputs in abc, PDF, etc. format. Will do abc, MIDI or its own format directly. Will print on any printer that Windows supports. With a little trickery using Windows it will do PostScript. Not PDF directly. Doesn't do etc. format at all. Laurie To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
