home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!caen!umeecs!zip.eecs.umich.edu!fields
- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
- Subject: Re: Score?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.154338.26577@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:43:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: zip.1992Nov22.154338.26577
- References: <0105009A.j83cok@david.roth-music.com> <Nov.22.01.44.01.1992.450@spade.rutgers.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <Nov.22.01.44.01.1992.450@spade.rutgers.edu> rosensta@spade.rutgers.edu (Michael "Trott" Rosenstark) writes:
- >Consider also that once one becomes fluent in, for example, Score, it
- >takes much less time to enter the thing; when you couple that with the
- >tremendous decrease in time extracting parts, the notation programs
- >are faster. Also, much more revisable.
-
- As a Finale expert and a past Score expert, I once again beg to
- differ. Part extraction is the pot of gold at the end of the
- computerized notation rainbow, for most of us (other enticements
- include notation options for e.g. paralyzed individuals, camera-ready
- artwork for publishing, and "better" notation for those who just can't
- or won't bring themselves to master clean manuscript). But experience
- shows that on the average it takes ten times as long to enter a
- typical orchestral score into a computer as it takes to draw it on
- vellum, and at least 10% longer to extract parts. But I'm still
- waiting hopefully for an environment which will actually speed up the
- overall process, especially speeding up part-extraction, which is pure
- informational redundancy. Program computation speeds are reaching
- just about a reasonable maximum for the hardware they're running on.
- Better support for correct, standard music notation, better
- structuring of data around the intrinsic structures in musical
- thought, and better user interfaces are the main things needed now.
-