Re: OT Composing (was My homepage is back... some of it anyway

H. S. Teoh:

> I've been struggling with a project of my own to develop a
> composition
> program that doesn't require such pains. But so far I still can't
> pin down
> what's the best way to input lots of notes painlessly. (Just
> imagine, eg.,
> inputting a long melody in dotted rhythm and embedded rests.
> Conceptually
> the rhythm is repetitive, and one should only need to specify the
> note
> values. But under existing schemes, you either have to drag and drop
> notes
> of different values, rests, etc., or you have to hand-edit tweak
> piano
> roll representations for every note. Just the perfect way to ruin
> any
> musical inspiration you may have left.)
I was using Mozart [1] crippleware [2] for a while and it was tedious
having to clicky-click up there & back just to change note lengths.

One way might be for the program to accept length values initially
as rests -- just type through (numbers for basic types... ) the rhythm.
Clicky-click on the staves for note value.  I think one could write
pretty quickly on the fly with keyboard/mouse coordination.

Copy and "Paste special" just-rhythm or just-melody [3] would be
handy.

[1] One of the few I found that would let me double-dot whole notes
rather than putting in tie bars.

[2] Too crippled: I crashed it with too many (well, for most people,
anyway)
time sig changes.  I would find keystroke time changes very useful in my
work.

[3] Invert/tranpose melody, 1/2 or double time... fast canons and fugues!


-Tone

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