[jazzplusplus-devel] Cooperation wanted!

[Rieder <har...@im...>]

Hello together,

my name is Harald Rieder, I'm from Germany, 41 years old.
In the past I was looking for a project exactly like Jazz++. Let me first explain why:

I "invented" my own music notation - which is very similar to the things shown in matrix editors of MIDI sequencers - and also developped a MIDI file viewer with print capabilities, first for the Atari TOS, second for 32 bit Windows. You may get an impression of my leisure work on http://home.eplus-online.de/Rieder/ . While I'm very content with the Atari version, I'm not so with the Windows version. The latter one is based on a (not really good) commercial library and I must not make an open source project of it which I want to. Therefore the windows version is still 0.0, like a beta, and has some bugs.

My idea was to convince a manufacturer of MIDI sequencers to integrate the features of my program into his products. I did not yet start action, when I came by accident to the Jazz++ site.

So what I want from you is: let me integrate my notation into the Jazz++ sequencer. There is the music notation modernization association evaluating better music notations and I am a member of it. But I do not speak as a member here but in my own interest. The MNMA did not yet finally decide on a notation to replace the traditional one. There is no clear recommendation from them (see also http://www.mnma.org/ ), and progress there is very slow. I can't wait. 

The traditional notation has many disadvantages. The Jazz++ sequencer does not (yet) have a notation view - as far as I could see, correct? It will make much development effort to achieve a good rendering for the traditional notation (How many developers are you ? ;-). The user must deal with many parameters (as I observed in "Capella" I purchased for my wife).

My notation knows few parameters for the user, but has color support - just like a matrix editor. It needs low development effort and I have working and tested C sources available.

So what I can contribute: I'm a very experienced C++ developer (doing it since years to earn money). I could integrate my notation into Jazz++. I could also to some other work you have for me.

Would this be O.K.?

Looking forward to your answer
Harald Rieder