Re: How to develop Emacs mode?

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Sceaux <address@hidden> writes:

    Nicolas> Several years ago, I used a midi keyboard to enter the notes: one 
hand
    Nicolas> on the midi keyboard, and one hand on the computer keyboard, to set
    Nicolas> durations, because I'm a lame keyboard player.  But it turned out 
that
    Nicolas> (in my case) that method was not quicker (or practical) than full 
computer
    Nicolas> keyboard entry.

I do use that method still.  I find it's not a lot quicker, but is a
bit less error prone, for my purposes.  When I do "relative" entry
from the computer keyboard, I make a lot of octavation errors.

But I agree with David that it needs better intelligence about
enharmonic notes -- if I weren't doing Renaissance music, which has a
lot higher percentage of "white notes" than later styles, I might well
decide that fixing the enharmonics was taking as much time as I was
saving on the octavation errors.

Another thing I'd really like added to this input method is a way to
hear the MIDI notes.  

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