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Such an instrument exists! http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html My biggest gripe with this notati
by avita1 11y ago
Such an instrument exists!
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html
My biggest gripe with this notation is that it assumes you're playing in a key, so the lines go <D E F# G...> for the key of D. That causes the spacing for a D chord and an E chord to look different, even though they're composed of the same intervals.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoThis stuff gets reinvented every few years. It never sticks, because there's literally an entire industry devoted to traditional notation and traditional keyboard design. Meanwhile in pop and electronica everyone started using button grids to trigger loops and samples, and the notation thing was almost completely bypassed. This is very, very limited a anything busier than a few block chords - which includes a lot of music - will be too dense for it. Notation evolved in an ad hoc way, so there's certainly a lot wrong with it. But it's good as an efficient representation of music. Most of the examples here would fit on a single line of notation - so this model is around four to eight times less dense. Try setting something simple like Bach's Prelude No 1 from the WTC and you'll see how inefficient it is.