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Posted in nerdliness on May 25th, 2008
In the early 1990′s, when I was still using OS/2 as my primary operating system, I attended a day-long demonstration about the platform. Included in the slate of presentations was one about voice recognition. The presenter, an energetic woman, described how she was able to read and respond to hundreds of emails and Compuserve forum [...]
Posted in nerdliness on May 25th, 2008
After a morning of continued experimentation with, and reading about, Sibelius, Sibylle discovered a posting online that talked about using plugins. Also, I received a comment to my earlier Sibelius posting, that specifically called out using the “Simplify Notation” plugin to clean up a score that had been entered using Flexitime. It actually works. [...]
Posted in nerdliness on May 24th, 2008
Recently Sibylle purchased an electronic keyboard for her studio, and last week the copy of Sibelius 5 that she had ordered arrived. Sibelius is one of the top two or three music notation software programs available and includes a note input mechanism called “Flexitime.” Flexitime captures the music you play on the keyboard (or other [...]