At 05:24 PM 24/05/2004, you wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Bruce Petherick wrote:
> At 12:15 PM 22/05/2004, you wrote: > > >Any listers have personal experience with this device? For concert situations in which there is minimal lighting, as a piano accompanist I found it to be terrific. No need for a stand light or special lighting as the unit is backlit and the intensity is adjustable. I've never messed with it, but you can also change the background (white space and staff) colors and the foreground (note/text) colors to any combination you want.
That is great about the intensity adjusting.
It does NOT do any sort of midi playback, transposition or anything along those lines.
I was hoping for transposition, but I am being lazy here!
The actual unit runs on Linux software, all of which is updatable via downloads from their web site. The original software released to the public had a utility program that allowed one to open up a linux 'ash' shell (I think it was 'ash') and do just about anything one could ordinarily do with a shell (limited to the number of programs available).
probably a bash shell. Hmmm that is good. Anything with a bash shell can be hacked into and changed. Maybe I can do transposition!
Sorry for being so long, but in all quite a nice unit and for any performer that relies on music (as opposed to playing by ear for everything), this is so much better than carrying around paper music. It does take some getting use to, visually, especially with scanned music.
Thank-you very much. I needed some professional users opinion and the question about transposition had to be answered. Looks like I will save up for Christmas, I think.
Bruce Petherick
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