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

[John Esak]

I'm hitting r's for f's.... Raking and racile are faking and facile....  :-)


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> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
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> m] On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:55 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: I'm going to write an Anziowin/scanning 
> interface for filePro...
> 
> 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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