Re: Paying for features

[Shelagh Manton]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:42:33 -0300
"Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden> wrote:

> [+lilypond-user]
> 
> I don't do this anymore - but I used to charge 100 EUR per hour, and
> what you're sketching is several months of works at the least.
> 
> why don't you browse around a little more.  I bet there are sequencers
> that are better suited to what you need.
> 
> good luck.

Doesn't scala make up microtonal scales? 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/

Maybe they could use that to create the scales and dump the scale to a
sound font or csound, pd (speaking from total ignorance of csound
and pd here, but the features page says you can do it) and then just
compose a song in lilypond to make a midi to play in a sequencer using
the scale you've created.

I don't know how practical this would be but it seems that maybe scala
might fit part of your bill.

Shelagh
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Dan W <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'd be willing to pay a lot more than $25 ;-)
> >
> > Hello, I'm involved in an open source game development project; a
> > game called Privateer - Parallel Universe
> > pu.wcjunction.com
> > pu.wcjunction.com/phpBB2
> > It's a remake and expansion of an old game --Wing Commander :
> > Privateer, but soon we'll be expanding the map from the original
> > (only Gemini sector) onto other
> > sectors in the Wing Commander universe map, such as Avalon and Sol
> > sectors; and we've decided we need new music for those, to
> > differenciate the feeling of each region.
> > We'd like to assign a different microtonal musical scale to each
> > race, faction and region; then compose music for them.
> >
> > For the kind of microtonalism I'm speaking of, check out Harry
> > Partch:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOHBqFevy0k&amp;feature=related
> > Well, not exactly; more inspired on his book, Genesis of a Music,
> > than on his compositions. Namely, the kind of microtonalism we're
> > interested in is not a new, arbitrary subdivision, but rather a
> > return to classic and pre-classic (pagan) musical ratios. That is,
> > for Terran music we'd probably be using well-tempered diatonic
> > tunings, based on Pythagorean intervals (using powers of 2 and 3
> > exclusively). Human pirates' music might be based on a fairly
> > similar, Hypolydian ratios, based on fractions containing the
> > number 18 as numerator or denominator. But for other races, such as
> > Kilrathi, Varni, Woo, Steltek and others, other scales would apply.
> > Dorian scale, based on fractions of 11, would be ideal for the
> > Kilrathi, I would think, for example, due to its martial feeling.
> >
> > What I've been looking for is some notation/composition software
> > tool that,
> >
> > allows me to compose music with multiple tracks, with some means of
> > positioning notes in pitch and time. Pentagram would be great.
> > allows me to specifiy the exact pitch of each note in the musical
> > scale. Ideally by a rational number, like 5/4 or 81/64 for the
> > major third, for example; but otherwise in "cents" (hundredths of a
> > semitone) as offset from an atempered scale note. (Quarter tones
> > would be far too coarse.) allows me to save a scale to a file; or
> > load one from a file. assumes that the notes specified for the
> > scale repeat at higher or lower octaves, but preferably makes
> > allowance for octave-specific variations in the numbers and pitches
> > of notes. allows me to bend the pitch of a note at any point along
> > a track allows me to change the lengths of bars, like playing 2 x
> > 6/8 bars, followed by two 4/8 bars, followed by.... whatever.
> > allows me to define different bar metrics for different tracks,
> > such as in King Crimson's song Discipline, where, at one point (2
> > minutes into the song), one guitar is playing at 14/16 and the
> > other at 15/16. allows me to divide the time of a note by any
> > number, like triplets; but ideally up to high and odd numbers like
> > 17, or 23 notes in the duration of one. I believe this is what
> > Wagner does for those musical "explosions" near the end of the Ride
> > of the Valkyrias, where various instruments are playing 3, 4, 5, 6,
> > 7 etc. notes in the same space of time, simultaneously. allows me
> > to edit and play back and to save and to record a .wav or .aif or
> > some other un-compressed, high quality audio format, hopefully
> > including high sampling rate formats, such as 88KHz or 192KHz.
> > hopefully runs on xp but I could install linux if necessary.
> > hopefully includes some half decent sound fonts of instruments
> > hopefully doesn't break the bank
> >
> > We were just beginning to consider writing our own software, when
> > someone passed me a link to LilyPond. If you were interested in
> > adding these features, how long would it take, and how much would
> > you charge me?
> >
> 
> 
> 


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