Re: Guitar MIDI Controller to Notation

On 1/21/23 08:54, mark_at_yahoo via Rosegarden-user wrote:
> Only vaguely related: Has there ever been any interest in adding a 
> guitar tablature editor to Rosegarden? 

On 1/21/23 11:03 PM, david wrote:
> I think adding it to RG while maintaining the ability to also 
> display/edit it *as a score* would be really tough.

On 1/22/23 1:52 AM, mark_at_yahoo via Rosegarden-user wrote:
> I'm envisioning it as a new/separate tablature editor window, like the 
> matrix and event editors vs notation.

On second thought, although I still like the tablature editor idea, a 
better design might be to integrate tablature directly into the notation 
editor. Each normal standard notation staff could have an optional 
tablature staff directly above (or below) it. Likewise, if the user was 
only interested in tablature, the standard staff could be disabled/hidden.

I've only played with Musescore very casually/briefly (and only version 
3, not the radically revamped new version 4 which doesn't run on my 
current system) and it has this capability. Sort of. Tablature staves 
can be created and positioned at will but they're completely 
disconnected from any standard notation staff -- notes entered in 
tablature don't appear in standard and vice-versa (the latter being the 
previously mentioned A.I. problem). Maybe there's a way to link them but 
if so it wasn't obvious to me.

In any case, there's no reason why Rosegarden couldn't have something 
like this, done correctly with live linking between the staves. Well, no 
reason except for the need to find someone with the ability to implement 
it and the willingness to volunteer a few hundred hours of software 
development effort to do so. ;)  And then even more to review, validate, 
test, integrate, and accept it into the Rosegarden codebase.

Any volunteers? ;)