Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Cooperation wanted!

[joakim v. <jo...@ve...>]

Rieder,

It would be great if you wanted to try this.

Its good for the project with more developers, whatever their interest.

I would say Jazz++ is a good choice for experiments such as this.

On the other hand you should be aware that our port of Jazz++ is only 
alpha grade, and
speed of progress varies with the workloads of the developers.

I'm coming out of a workload tunnel right now, and can help you if you 
have any questions.


Regards,
/Joakim


Rieder wrote:

> 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
>  
>