I'm going to write an Anziowin/scanning interface for filePro...

[John Esak]

I'm just curious, Bob.  Since you actually do read and play what you see...
How good are you at it.  Sight reading that is. I mean can you play a
typical (average difficulty) piano piece on a fresh seeing of it.  I've met
some people who can do this wonderful thing. I have always wanted to be able
to do that. I know music backwards and forwards, I can compose very nice
stuff.  I can orchestrate and arrange for all the different staves.  I
simply have never had good enough eyes to sight read and it is the one thing
I have always wanted to be able to do. :-(  There is something that has
nothing to do with my eye problem that just finds sight reading two
different staves, one for each hand, having never seen something before...
As miraculous.  I have known some really fantastic musician/composers that
can site read (and sing) an entire orchestral score... All the instruments
at once on one page. I mean, I don't think most people really understand the
awesome thing a conductor is doing as he is waving his baton and hands
around so effortlessly... And then you see him calmly reach down and turn
the page at the right time... Which means he is really actually doing it, or
he is just raking it pretty damn good. :-)  

No, I guess I'm asking are you one of those musicians who says... I need the
music to be able to play it.. And then when you get the sheet music you just
start picking it off.  Or, do you have to struggle a bit learning each piece
a little at a time, stumbling at all the hard parts... :-)  Because, if you
can do the sight reading thing pretty good, and you are as racile as you are
with programming, doesn't aht mean you ar using both sides of your brain a
lot.  Most folks are either left brained or right brained... How many are
amidextrously brained?  :-)  If anyone is, I'm guess it's you.  By the way,
I hate you.

John

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:03 AM
> To: Fairlight
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: I'm going to write an Anziowin/scanning 
> interface for filePro...
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Fairlight wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:58:23PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen may 
> or may not have
> > proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > > I can now use my iPad for sheet music. I can turn pages 
> with a finger tap, 
> > > and I can mark up the music with my finger.
> > > 
> > > Is that cool or what!?
> > 
> > Now you just need to take it the extra few steps that Nick 
> Rhodes does.
> > Get it translated into MIDI, have a sequencer program keyed to your
> > keyboards with even a blank track of the right duration.  
> When you start
> > the song with a trigger, the program should actually flip 
> the pages -for-
> > you, live as you play.
> > 
> > Saw Nick do this with a Mac noteook in 2000 for an entire 
> set, live.  Very
> > impressive to see along with his usual array of gear.
> 
> I can see how that would work for a solo performance, but let 
> me assure 
> you, middle school musicals are NOT that predictable! :-)
> 
> I experimented several years ago with a laptop, turned 
> sideways to get 
> portrait orientation. I actually found a USB-connected foot 
> switch, and 
> rigged it to turn pages. I found that my foot was to clumsy, 
> and I would 
> get multiple page-turns from a double-click, for instance, 
> and would lose 
> my place. I'll have to look at the PC approach again, now 
> that I have a 
> touch-enabled laptop and my own PDF viewer software.
> 
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
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