On 19 Sep 2008 at 15:47, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > [snip]> Obviously, for teaching purposes with kids, you'd > turn off this > > feature, but for "grown-ups," it would be pretty useless without it, > > no? > > As an accompaniment for adults performing, I quite agree > with you. But SmartMusic is marketed to schools for > students to use and is not targeted to adults who want to do > singles but who want accompaniment.
But it serves that purpose, and it seems to me is likely to have a pretty big audience for that (if they marketed it for that purpose). > Look at the web-site -- it's marketed as an educational tool. But what about advanced students? Don't you want your students to get good enough rhythmically to be able to use a smart accompaniment tool? Maybe this is just a matter of bad default settings -- maybe the default should be strict tempo, and the non-students should be able to turn on rubato. Or maybe there should be a setting in your Smartmusic accompaniments that restricts a particular accompaniment to strict mode. The point is that there is no flaw in the technology -- indeed, the ability to adapt to the input from the live player is the glory of the whole technology -- it's that it's been implemented in a way that requires extra work for the educational market. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
