They sure have come a long way. I remember that, as geeky as I was, I found everything about MIDI too daunting to even make the attempt. These days, it's so much simpler and I'm really having fun with it. I started work on another piece and it's going much smoother this time. Of course, it's orchestral strings, so there are no chords. Still, I think I could probably even redo the first one better now. I think I might just repair it if I can, though.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:44 PM, D. Michael McIntyre <rosegarden.trumpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/08/2016 12:29 PM, Silas Mortimer wrote: > >> Not that I think we should abandon the old way by any means, but maybe >> there ought to be a notation 2.0, completely reworked to be an easy >> learning curve for those who already know the old notation, but make >> more sense to coding. I wonder if that's even possible. > > There are all kinds of strange little projects out there already, but > nothing ever gains enough traction to displace traditional notation. > For that matter, I think and deal with western traditional notation > exclusively, but there are other traditions that are of a similar age. > > It reminds me of this cartoon about standards: > > https://xkcd.com/927/ > > Reading back over my previous comments, I'd like to point out that all > of those pages and pages of things Rosegarden can't render always come > down to just a bar here and a bar there. I've worked out a lot of ways > to fake my way around things like this over the years, and usually get > something done, but not without compromises. Even LilyPond, vast and > venerable as it is, still requires compromises sometimes. People could > engrave literally anything on a music plate back in the day, and they did! > >> You know, I say that I'm completely new to composing on a computer, >> but that's not *quite* true. In the days of DOS, I remember creating a >> BASIC file that would play some notes using computer beeps, lol. I >> remember doing Slayer's "War Ensemble" that way and it was hilarious. >> Just a random thought. > > The first program I used to compose computer music had four voices of > polyphony, and no real control over what the voices sounded like. I > typed it out of a Rainbow magazine, and it took hours. You composed > melodies on a vertical grid, by typing pitches at the right time > intervals. It was just like a MOD tracker in that respect, but way > before MOD files existed. > > Things have come a long way! > -- > D. Michael McIntyre > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager > Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of > your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and > reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/ > gampad/clk?id=1444514301&iu=/ca-pub-7940484522588532 > _______________________________________________ > Rosegarden-user mailing list > Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/ gampad/clk?id=1444514301&iu=/ca-pub-7940484522588532 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
