Re: [Rosegarden-devel] change of plan

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Saturday 25 January 2003 13:40, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Not entirely unrelatedly, I just downloaded a demo of Sibelius.=20
> I asked it to import one of my most difficult test MIDI files [...]
> and blam, a readable score very quickly indeed.

Actually the more I look at it, the less magical it looks.  The part=20
splitting ("auto-ranging split point") still impresses, and it=20
definitely does a better job in general of quantization than the=20
new-notation-quantization code, and it renders nicely, and it _is_=20
certainly fast... but I haven't yet seen much that I can't at least=20
envisage us being able to do too.

Of course I've only looked at importing MIDI so far, since that's the=20
focus of the new-notation-quantization work.  I haven't looked at any=20
of the editing or layout code itself.  I had a bit of trouble working=20
out how to select anything, but that's about all I've tried to do.


Chris