14 Jul
2004
14 Jul
'04
8:08 p.m.
Greetings:
As promised, here's a set of test criteria used by Alan Belkin in
his 1994 review of
Special/custom notation:
unusual staves
simultaneous key signatures
unconventional time signatures
as was pointed out recently (in re: MIDI) on the SuperCollider list,
commercial software development responds to its customer base's
desires (to a certain extent) and the less desirable elements rarely
make it into the releases.
one thing that i've always had to fudge in notation programs is
"free" time. imagine morton feldman trying to use finale (or
whatever) - headless notes put in places relative to one another
rather than a grid. in most programs i have used (digital
composer/mosaic, finale, sibelius) stem lengths can be shortened to
zero, but placement has to be fooled by adding invisible rests. what
a pain.
most scores i have made in the past few years have started in a
notation program and moved the files into a graphics program fairly
quickly. the ability to save a notation file as a graphic file is a
must, unless the notation program has major graphic editign
capabiulities.
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