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I know it is a long list and most of it has already been brought up but here is my thoughts just in case.Īll of the below with altered tuning on the selected instrument ability.

#Neck diagrams alternative pro

I use Finale, Sibelius, Guitar Pro and Chord wizard among other programs through the years and would like to see features like these below in future releases of Dorico for us Fretted instrument players. Now for the reason for my post, I’m tired of using one program or another for something the other lacks. I’m very excited as we all are about what the future holds. Thank you for a great looking program with awesome playback capabilities.

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There is a small risk people will import, say, Christmas trees into their notation, but it would assure maximum freedom in deciding how to set up psg notation.Īnother source of frustration in virtually any other notation software: Setting barré indications IS and always has been a tedious hassle! Since there are many different tastes out there, from people preferring simple “staples” to others who want a complex graphic (indicating the strings to be pressed (=vertical line), the duration (=horizontal line), the fret #, the finger # doing the barré – have I forgotten something?) it would be best you do a barré editor as well and let users decide if fret or finger numbers are inline (= the line is interrupted to make room for the number) or outside, if lines are thick or thin, wavy or straight, dotted or not, showing end pins or not…Īnd while I’m writing this I’m certain that this must be already on your minds. Instead of offering predefined forms simply make possible that users can load and trim their own graphics to be used as diacritical remarks. I’d like to specify my feature proposition post from Feb 2nd concerning pedal steel notation: I’m looking very much forward to Dorico’s future while I honestly still have enough to learn with the existing version.

I’d also welcome a scorchy app to display partitions on my tablet, but that’s a different subject. Of course if you manage to come up with a viable solution for psg notation that is fixed and predetermined, but sets a reasonable future standard it will be all the same welcome. Some pedals/levers raise/lower a whole note sometimes it is necessary to press only halfway to achieve the corresponding half tone modulation – this needs to be noticeable. maybe various colours, although that is less editor-friendly) to identify at the same time the string (via the number) and – if so given – the pedal/lever in use (via the form) – and it would be short.Īlternative: Letter/number combination letters for pedals and levers (as is the case currently in much of psg notation), numbers for the strings. The solution of my choice – comparable to encircled numbers for string identification in guitar notation – would be numbered symbols (squares, triangles, diamonds, cones, various -agons etc. Not knowing if the small market of pedal steelers is in your focus at all, I’d like to suggest two features:ġ.) A possibility to separate notes from the TABs and to print/display them separately, thus using TABs as a “solution sheet” in case of doubt while keeping notes and TABs syncedĢ.) A possibility to create macros to add the diacritical remarks needed to specify a string/pedal (or lever) combination. And yes, I usually have to do this manually, since I do not know of any reasonable other way. In this case I rely on TAB to detail the fingering, accepting the drawback that pupils read the TAB instead of the notation. However, it is difficult to teach instruments that provide many strings and fretting possibilities if you want pupils to learn a specific fingering, which is the case with pedal steel guitar. Those who struggle reading notes struggle reading TABs, too, although the degree of abstraction is lower. If I might add to this, as a teacher I’m not even that much interested in TAB as in my opinion it isolates the TAB readers from the “proper notes reading” community, so I tend to go an extra (abstract) mile with my pupils and teach them notes, which is generally not a problem, and it enables them to learn one lingua franca for all instruments. Now this is indeed stunning and I understand your (Daniel’s) statement dating from Feb 2nd!