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| Posted 12/24/2015 5:08 AM (GMT -6) |   | It should be clarified what is the main feature of the playmusic mode.
In every moment a vertical cursor (similar to the playback cursor) indicates a current position on the score, i.e. the note or notes of the score you should play now. To play the said notes, you can press any key or keys on the MIDI keyboard. Each of those notes will be assigned to one of pressed keys, which will cause sounding of the note. The number of the notes and the pressed keys may not be equal. You can even play by pressing all time the same one or alternately the same two keys. | | Back to Top | |
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| Posted 12/27/2015 12:02 PM (GMT -6) | | | This plug-in works with the scores that you opened in Finale’s File menu or have created in Finale after choosing New item in the said menu. Unfortunately, now the playmusic mode is applicable only for MIDI keyboards. But nevertheless, there is the technical solution which would make possible to apply the playmusic mode to the acoustic piano. | | Back to Top | |
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| Posted 12/27/2015 2:18 PM (GMT -6) | | | In addition, PlayMusic relieves the performer from having to find the right keys to play the notes indicated by the cursor, it also if necessary controls the correct duration of the sounds relative to other sounds. This can be explained by the following example. Let us suppose that you need to concurrently play a quarter note and two consecutive eighth notes. If you press any two keys on the keyboard, then the left one will be assigned the lower of the first two notes (i.e., will cause the sound), and the right will be assigned to a higher note. If you release both keys, the first of the eighth notes stops sounding, but the quarter note will continue to sound until you press any key to play the second of the eighth notes and then release it to stop sounding. The quarter note will stop sounding at the same time. | | Back to Top | |
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| Posted 12/29/2015 11:39 AM (GMT -6) | | From a mechanical point of view, the performance of any musical piece on the keyboard instrument is nothing more than a series of presses and releases of the specified keys in the specified order (now we omit the use of the pedals, as well as nuances of touché). All this is uniquely determined by the score. You may only vary the speed of pressing keys and time intervals between operations with the keys. That is what distinguishes one performance of the piece from another.
PlayMusic frees you from the need to select the specified keys (because you may press any keys), i.e. it eliminates the main difficulties of playing keyboard instrument. But, at the same time, it leaves all possibilities to perform the piece the way you want. | | Back to Top | |
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Motet
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| Posted 12/29/2015 1:05 PM (GMT -6) | | | |
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Motet
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| Posted 1/3/2016 12:22 PM (GMT -6) | | If you look at it from a physics point of view, you've got a mass (the hammer) hitting the strings at a certain velocity, disengaged from the key at that point. I guess if the shank has been deformed and is in the process of snapping back when the hammer hits the string that could in theory impart some acceleration to the hammer at the time of impact, but if that exists it's got to be tiny and I'm skeptical. My guess is that a "singing tone," etc., on the piano is really a matter of the relative volumes of various notes creating a musical effect.
I once went to a master class by Karl Ulrich Schnabel, who was the son of the famous Artur Schnabel, and he thought you could achieve a crescendo by vibrating your hands on the held-down keys! It was quite daft and betrayed an ignorance of how the piano mechanism works, but he was a wonderful teacher nonetheless.
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| Posted 1/13/2016 3:05 PM (GMT -6) | |
It contains a detailed overview of the so-called conductor programs which make possible computer-mediated musical performance when the pre-performed score is stored in the computer memory and the performer controls its playback with single keystrokes on a MIDI keyboard or some other way. Tapper by Stephen Malinowski is the most close to PlayMusic among those programs. But, nevertheless, it has a number of the serious differences:
1. Tapper deals with files in MIDI format.
PlayMusic works with the scores in Finale format (i.e. having .mus or .musx file extension) or in any other file format supported by Finale (including .midi files).
2. Tapper uses the bar-graph notation, i.e. it displays the score as a set of rectangles having certain position, width, and color.
PlayMusic is in the conventional musical notation, which is provided by Finale.
3. In Tapper, single keystrokes control playback of MIDI files. The MIDI files store the information about parameters of the performance. For each group of notes started by a given keypress, the loudest note in that group will be played at the level dictated by the velocity of the keypress; the other notes in that group will have dynamic levels that maintain their dynamic proportion to the loudest note (i.e. the proportion will be the same as in the MIDI file).
For PlayMusic no matter what keys are pressed to play the current notes of the score, because it processes MIDI input messages and replaces MIDI key number on MIDI key number corresponding to one of those notes. Information about those notes is accessible to PlayMusic thanks to the Finale application program interface (API). Because the volume of those notes depends on how you press each key, you can control the relative volumes of various notes. PlayMusic may also ignore the messages about unnecessary keystrokes or on the contrary create multiple copies of messages with new MIDI key numbers corresponding to those notes. Therefore, if you wish, you can even play all current notes by pressing a single key.
4. In Tapper, notes are grouped into alternating sets of play groups and release groups. Play groups are groups of note starts that happen at the roughly same time. Release groups are all the notes ends that happen between one play group and the following play group. When you press a key on the MIDI keyboard, Tapper plays any note ends in the upcoming release group and all the note starts in the next play group.
PlayMusic starts and stops sounding of the notes in accordance with the pressing and releasing of keys. If necessary, it controls the correct duration of the sounds relative to other sounds (especially if you play by pressing a single key).Post Edited (author) : 1/15/2016 2:40:44 PM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | |
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| Posted 1/18/2016 11:22 AM (GMT -6) | | | It should again be emphasized that unlike the conductor programs, PlayMaster does not use any MIDI data relating to any performance. All notes of the score begin to sound, have a dynamic level, and stop sounding in accordance with the movement keys. But there is one exception: the grace notes and ornaments are played automatically. This was done for two reasons: first, for somebody it may be too hard to press a key or keys so quickly; and secondly, on some types of MIDI keyboards practically impossible to play them more or less satisfactorily. | | Back to Top | |
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| Posted 1/25/2016 10:56 AM (GMT -6) | | So what is the best way to play the score with PlayMusic?
The answer depends on the level of your ambitions and your technical capabilities. The easiest way is to play all current notes with a single keystroke. The volume of those notes will be determined by the velocity of the keypress, but PlayMusic may reduce the volume of the notes of the accompaniment.
If it is not hard for you, then you can press any several keys (just which are more convenient) for sounding the current notes of the score. Thus you can control the relative volumes of various notes for creating a desired musical effect.
If your technical ability allows it, you can play in the usual way (except, as mentioned above, grace notes and ornaments that are played automatically). In this case, only the cursor will indicate current notes and the score will be scrolled during performing. | | Back to Top | |
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Ralph L. Bowers Jr.
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| Posted 1/25/2016 7:42 PM (GMT -6) | | Just report it to Perter F. "Forum Moderator," if it is starting to trouble you with the OP's attempts to sell his software plugin.
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Progression, Progression 2, Progression 3, Notion 4, [Notion 5, (bought but not installed)]
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Michel R. E.
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| Posted 1/26/2016 9:46 AM (GMT -6) | | author said...Derrek said...
Isn't it about time to stop using this forum for an extended commercial? Dear Derrek, I fully admit that this Finale plug-in may be absolutely uninteresting to you. But as far as I can judge, it is of interest to some visitors of this forum. So what to do?
So far, it would appear that you have an odd idea of what "interest" is.
David asked you what your plug-in did, since your initial explanation was so frustratingly vague and poorly written.
Then Motet has responded twice, neither of his responses indicating any interest in your "product".
Otherwise, any other responses in this thread have been criticism of your spamming technique.
Most of the posts in this thread are from you, reviving the thread with pointless "bumps", and that, dear sir, is the very essence of spamming.
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