Use Case: Notation for Digital and Digital-to-Analogue Synthesis (WAS: Use Case)

Thanks for your response, Joe
I agree that this is not the time to discuss the appropriateness or not of a particular use case.
Yes, I am a member of the WG and I have joined because of this area of interest. All I am looking for *at this stage* if feedback as to whether a use case covering this area would be something that others would be willing to explore: if there is, I would invest some time in putting together some initial ideas (beyond the note below, which I am happy to move to the Wiki); if there is no interest elsewhere in the WG, that is in itself valuable feedback! So, group, comments please! ☺

On a separate note: one concern that I do have is that many of the contributions under “use cases” are *not* use cases but usage requirements (functional or non-) and feature requests. A use case should rather sketch out a higher-level scenario with indications of the expected interactions by and with specified type(s) of stakeholder/role(s).

Regards,
Peter

From: Joe Berkovitz [mailto:joe@noteflight.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 8 December, 2015 06:08
To: Research <research@peterfbrown.com>
Cc: public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org
Subject: Re: Use Cases

Hello Peter,

If you are a member of the group I encourage you to add a use case to this effect directly to the wiki page. If not, then let me know (without CCing the group) and I will add it for you.

I would rather not respond about the appropriateness of any particular use case right now. There are many use cases on record so far, and certainly some of them will be out of scope -- but those decisions are best taken after we have accumulated as broad a range of cases as possible.

Best,
...Joe

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On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Research <research@peterfbrown.com<mailto:research@peterfbrown.com>> wrote:
Hi,
My apologies straight away if my comments are either out of scope or have already been dealt with – I am relatively new to the group and the list, if not to the subject matter!

Under Document Content Cases (and unless this is intended to be covered under the “not started” item marked “Post-CMN 20th century and later”) I would like to raise the issue of notation for electronic sound synthesis (including additive and subtractive synthesis, modulation and treatment, etc.)

Rationale
The resurgence of interest in recent years in analogue synthesis – and together with it the issues of interfacing between analogue and digital devices – has highlighted the absence of any common notation for this idiom.

Problem
While many analogue instruments are able to inter-operate through common control voltage customs (and convertors are available to modify signals between instruments that cannot communicate directly), notations that to exist to record different instrumentation parameters tend to be device-specific (so-called dope sheets or patches) and are considered by sound designers, engineers, composers and performers alike as very much device specific. To be able to encapsulate specific sound designs and their parameters in a manner that is neither person nor device dependent would seem to fulfil the criteria of this group’s mission.

Happy to hear comments on this before pursuing the issue further.
Best regards,
Peter

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From: Joe Berkovitz [mailto:joe@noteflight.com<mailto:joe@noteflight.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 November, 2015 14:30
To: public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org<mailto:public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org>
Subject: Use Cases

Hi Group,

Thank you for your patience! It's taken rather longer than I would have liked, due to my being sidelined by illness for a while, but with the co-chairs' help I've prepared an initial list of annotated use cases on the Music Notation CG wiki at this URL:

https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/MusicXML_Use_Cases#Use_Cases


We are eager to generate some feedback and additional depth for the existing cases, and also to add cases that we have overlooked. New material can be added directly in the wiki page by editing it using your W3C account. Please follow the existing formatting by italicizing use case headings and adding indented notes or descriptions below these headings.

The chairs have a couple of requests to frame this phase of the discussion:

- Let's avoid debates on what is in or out of scope. That will come later. Undoubtedly not everything will be in scope, but we first want to collect all the ideas worth collecting.

- For the moment, we would like to focus mostly on what users are doing with musical documents, and return to the question of the nature of the musical content itself at a later point (CMN, neumes, mensural, contemporary, arbitrary graphics...).

I'm very much looking forward to this exchange!

Best,

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Joe Berkovitz
President

Noteflight LLC
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phone: +1 978 314 6271<tel:%2B1%20978%20314%206271>
www.noteflight.com<http://www.noteflight.com>
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