2014-06-03 5:02 GMT+03:00 Marc Sabatella <m...@outsideshore.com>:
> On 06/02/2014 05:46 PM, Andrei Tuicu wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Marc, fretless basses should have in my opinion tabs, but
> > for me it makes sense to have tabs for acoustic basses, contrabasses,
> > even violins. For me, if I can "draw" frets on an instrument with
> > strings, then I can write a tab.
>
> No doubt one "can". The question is, does anyone actually do this
> regularly? Or said another way, is there a need for MuseScore to
> support it "out of the box", or is it sufficient that users can set it
> up themselves by editing instruments.xml or changing the instrument to
> one that supports it natively?
>
I would tend to say yes here. I do this regularly, even though I know
standard notation, I preffer writing tabs if possible. Moreover, there are
a lot of guitarists (more then half of the guitarists/electric bass players
I know) that never learned standard notation, so they will not be able to
write scores for other instruments if at some point they need to. When it
comes to the instruments.xml I think that most users (with programming
knowledge, or not) would not want to work directly with it.
> As for the tunning/number of strings for guitars and basses I don't
> > think these should be hardcoded.
>
> None of it is hard coded. It's all user customizable via staff
> properties. We're just talking about what the defaults shipped as part
> of instruments.xml should be.
I'm sorry, I've missused the phrase "hard coded". I see that I can tune
the instrument in the way I want and I can add strings to it, but if I add
a string to the guitar for exemple, even though in the staff properties is
says "Number of strings 7", there are only 6 lines in the tab. The number
of strings that are set in the staff properties should match the number of
lines from the tab. This will also solve the problem of 5(-6) string
electric basses.
I hope I did not deviated from the topic.
Andrei
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