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I can see how this could be convincingly better than the analogue equivalent, and worth buying an iPad for (if I still had a piano): * Is page-turning easy? W
by samstokes 16y ago
I can see how this could be convincingly better than the analogue equivalent, and worth buying an iPad for (if I still had a piano):
* Is page-turning easy? With paper you have to carefully dog-ear the sheet music so that you can grab the corner and turn the page without breaking flow. A simple one-finger swipe or tap would be less disruptive to playing.
* On-demand sheet music purchase is a great idea, if the catalogue is comprehensive enough. It would be great to be able to go from hearing a great piece on the radio to having the score in front of you in minutes.
I assume you need music to be converted so that you can support the synthesiser and simulated keyboard. To bootstrap, can you take existing sheet music unconverted (just scanned, say) and display it without those features? TBH I'm not sure I see the utility of watching the keypresses anyway (maybe because I haven't tried it).
* As well as hearing a synthesised version of the piece, what about a link from the score to world-renowned recordings, to stream or purchase? I'd often struggle to learn some passages that seemed boring or repetitive, but to hear the same passage played with fluency and passion would be very motivating.
- dangrover 16y agoMost of the pieces do have affilliate links to recordings on the iTunes Music Store, but not all.
- samstokes 16y agoAlso, it bugs me that it's Etude and not Étude, but I'm probably alone in that :)
- lanstein 16y agoYeah, you are, because accents are often left off of capital letters in French.
- samstokes 16y agoHuh, didn't know that, but you're right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_alphabet#Diacritics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_alphabet#Diacritics). I declare myself out-pedanted :)
- lanstein 16y ago:-)
- samstokes 16y agoMetacomment: I find it amusing that I got more upvotes for providing attribution for a refutation of my own minor criticism of Etude than for my original comment actually discussing Etude. I guess I'm being rewarded for admitting and embracing my own wrongness!
- masklinn 16y agoYeah, but they are only because it's a pain to type them on the french AZERTY keyboard: it doesn't have an easy to find dead key for the acute accent. So either you type an accent-less character, or you waste 10mn looking for a way to have the accent in. As far as the Académie Française is concerned, diacritics are not optional.
- masklinn 16y agoFor technical reason though, the Académie clearly states diacritics are not optional. So it should be Étude indeed.