DMusic / RiffGrabber
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RiffGrabber just got a very positive review in Amazing Computing, which will be
of interest to Amiga musicians who want to use Deluxe Music the way you'd like
to use it: by playing live and having pitches and durations trascribed properly
into common music notation. Nick
My vote goes to this combination. I have been using RiffGrabber with ]DM 2.0
for a while now, and they do work great together. Great job Nick!
John & Rick a.k.a RAJH
Thanks for helping me toot my own horn. Now if we could only get a little
cleanup-the-bugs upgrade on DMusic, we'd be cruisin' Glad to hear RiffGrabber's
found a spot in your creative life! Nick
Rick, Rick (Arend, not you) and I have just been working on a 'riffgrab'
inspired song. I just 'riffed', went back and forth with Dmusic2 a few times
and wah-la..a song! I talked to EA about 2 months ago. They said that the
programmer was working on other projects, and would let us know when he gets
back to DM2.0. The "MIDI Rush" does get irritating sometimes. BTW does your
player work? Mine plays the first note of the song and stops. Let me know if
you hear from EA. I had talked to Orlando Guzman.
Later, John
I've never even tried the DMusic player, sorry. I don't even think it's on my
hard drive. I agree about the irritating MIDI rush, and I very much dislike
having to manually drag the instruments all the way to the left so that they
can kick in properly on some tunes (can't find a reason why some tunes ALWAYS
have this problem, and some tunes NEVER do). Fixes I am much more worried about
include improper accidental notation convention that is used (ie, an accidental
holds for the duration of a measure ONLY for subsequent pitches that are in the
SAME OCTAVE. So an A# in octave two, followed by an A in octave three does not
notate the second A with a natural symbol. It should) Anyway, I do like DMusic
a lot, and while DMCS gave me better printouts with CopyistCompanion and The
Copyist, the use of RiffGrabber has locked me into DMusic2. Thanks for sharing
the story about the 'riffgrab' inspired song. Digital mutlitracking the way it
should be used! Nick
Nick,
what IS Copyist Companion? I own both DMusic 2 and Copyist DTP v1.68
and while DMusic's input system is much more friedly than The Copyist's
(which is one of the two reasons I bought DMusic in the first place) I'd
still like to have The Copyist's printout quality…
Thanks,
// Chris coming in from Germany
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Boy I wish Copyist Companion worked on the new DMusic file format. What
Copyist Companion did was read an old-style DMCS score file and write out a
Copyist file. You could then load that Copyist file into The Copyist for final
tweaking and beautiful printing. I wrote Copyist Companion because DMCS
printing was so awful. The new DMusic's file format is completely different,
so it would take a long time to do a rewrite. If Dmusic2's printout were just
a LITTLE worse, I'd probably update CopyistCompanion to do it. But they did a
pretty good job of printing with DMusic2 – too good to create a market for a
new version of my program! Which is, well, good and bad I guess. Nick
Nick, you can register at least one potential customer (me) for an upgrade
to Copyist Companion… yes, DMusic's printing is much better
than DMCS's was but it is not what I had hoped to see…. so maddening
to see them get SO CLOSE…
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JcP
Thanks, Jeff. I'll keep the CopyistCompanion rewrite in mind. If I could clone
myself and sick the clone on this project… Nick
Nick,
well, they DID a better job than they did with the original DMCS but
it's still WAY behind what I can get from Copyist, so for people with
DMusic2 who want high-quality printouts it would probably be the only
choice, especially as Dr.T's seems to be doing a clearance sale at the
moment (KCS 3.5 @ $49.95, TigerCub @ $19.95, Copyist DTP 1.6 @ $39.95, "M"
@ $19.95, and the Phantom Interface (MIDI/SMPTE) @ $29.95). You fnd them
in the MIDICVEND forum. I already have KCS and Copyist and have ordered
the "M" composition/performance package and the Phantom interface for
syncing to tape.
BTW, you can list me under "potential Copyist Companion customer" if you
find the time to do the update…
// Chris coming in from Germany
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Thanks Christian, for the comments on a potential upgrade to Copyist Companion.
I'll put you on the list of potential buyers, and look forward to a time when I
can do it right. Nick
I have DMusic and use it with a tone generator instead of a MIDI keyboard.
Therefore I have no "Performance" tool. My question is…would Riffgrabber help
me? Can Riffgrabber import/convert MODs,for example, to DM2.0? In short, How
would it benefit someone without a "performance" tool? Bob
RiffGrabber needs MIDI input to do its job. Anything that sends MIDI: a
keyboard, MIDI guitar, or even another Amiga with a performance application
like M or MusicMouse. RiffGrabber does not import and convert MOD files. It
only imports music directly from DMusic via ARexx. So if your setup changes and
you want to perform live and have your performace transcribed, that's what
RiffGrabber will do for you. Best, Nick
Nick, You're welcome. Keep me informed of any enhancements to RG.
John
Will do. Internal multitracking may be a RiffGrabber enhancement at some point.
Nick