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This is really neato. How "richly-featured" do you plan on making this? The reason I ask is that it would be really nifty to be able to share or export these t

by memset 13y ago

This is really neato. How "richly-featured" do you plan on making this? The reason I ask is that it would be really nifty to be able to share or export these tunes. Either via MIDI, or preferably, via another notation format. If they will be fairly simple melodies, ABC might be a great output format, which converts easily into sheet music notation and midi. Otherwise, you might want something fancy-pants like Sibelius (or whatever people are using nowadays for notation.)

stigi 13y ago
Was trying to use Sibelius recently and it s*cked big time! An open format for export would be great!
- deadlysyntax 13y ago
  Midi?
  - ygra 13y ago
    Midi is hardly appropriate or useful for music engraving. It's for controlling a device to output music in the way you want, not for recording how it looks on paper.
- colomon 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML Disclaimer: I have no experience with MusicXML. The vast majority of the music I want to notate fits on a single staff, and ABC is brilliant for that -- it's a well-established portable open music format that's easily entered and edited by hand. (Technically speaking it can do multi-staff music as well, but it starts to get a bit over-complicated and hacky at that point, IMO.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation PS The "Score" example on the ABC notation page is terrible, but it's a limitation of the lousy standard abc2ly translator, not the ABC format. I've got my own abc2ly which does a much better job of it...
zwily 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, but a couple of the more powerful open-source music notation pieces are software are Lilypond [1] and Mup [2]. They've both been around for awhile, work from custom text-formats, and support a ton of music typesetting features. [1] http://www.lilypond.org/ http://www.lilypond.org/ [2] http://www.arkkra.com/ http://www.arkkra.com/
- memset 13y ago
  I have had a lot of luck with Rosegarden too: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
orlandohill 13y ago
I'd consider RiffUp incomplete until it could express the same musical concepts as GuitarPro/Sibelius/Finale. I don't have much interest in purely presentational features, though. Import/Export is on the TODO list. If there ended up being a custom RiffUp format, it would be open and documented.

by memset 13y ago

stigi 13y ago

Was trying to use Sibelius recently and it s*cked big time! An open format for export would be great!

deadlysyntax 13y ago
Midi?
- ygra 13y ago
  Midi is hardly appropriate or useful for music engraving. It's for controlling a device to output music in the way you want, not for recording how it looks on paper.
colomon 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML Disclaimer: I have no experience with MusicXML. The vast majority of the music I want to notate fits on a single staff, and ABC is brilliant for that -- it's a well-established portable open music format that's easily entered and edited by hand. (Technically speaking it can do multi-staff music as well, but it starts to get a bit over-complicated and hacky at that point, IMO.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation PS The "Score" example on the ABC notation page is terrible, but it's a limitation of the lousy standard abc2ly translator, not the ABC format. I've got my own abc2ly which does a much better job of it...

zwily 13y ago

Slightly off-topic, but a couple of the more powerful open-source music notation pieces are software are Lilypond [1] and Mup [2]. They've both been around for awhile, work from custom text-formats, and support a ton of music typesetting features. [1] http://www.lilypond.org/ http://www.lilypond.org/ [2] http://www.arkkra.com/ http://www.arkkra.com/

memset 13y ago
I have had a lot of luck with Rosegarden too: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

orlandohill 13y ago

I'd consider RiffUp incomplete until it could express the same musical concepts as GuitarPro/Sibelius/Finale. I don't have much interest in purely presentational features, though. Import/Export is on the TODO list. If there ended up being a custom RiffUp format, it would be open and documented.