Re: Music notation demo with live synthesized playback

That's very cool, Joe!  I'll be looking forward to what can be done once
loop-points and envelopes are there.  One thing you could add right now
pretty easily is a reverb effect, where you could provide a few different
rooms and a dry/wet mix control - just a thought :)

Anyway, this is great work and is very nice to see.
Chris


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Joseph Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
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> The following link points to the demo that Noteflight showed at yesterday's
> Boston Music Hack Day event.  Our goal was to showcase both our own work and
> the power afforded by the APIs proposed in this W3C group:
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>     http://slice.noteflight.com/audioXG/
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> It generated quite a bit of excitement at the event and won one of the
> prizes on offer.
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> The demo shows one of Michael Good's MusicXML examples rendered in SVG.  It
> is not a pre-rendered graphic; the music can be repaginated and reflowed in
> various staff sizes using a control in the page.
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> More importantly for this group the demo uses the AudioNode API to create a
> wavetable synthesizer based on Noteflight's piano samples, and uses that
> synthesizer to render a performance of the music with live score following.
>  The tempo can be varied by another in-page control.
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> Clicking on any individual note will sound that note.
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> Be sure to wait for the whole thing to load up properly before clicking
> Play :)  There's no real load indicator or completion detection yet.
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> I will be following up with some observations on what we learned about the
> API in the course of creating this demo, but wanted to get this notice out
> promptly.  Basically our experience was positive but there are a few
> important missing things we discovered, beyond those already noted in my
> prior review like envelopes, loop points, etc.
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> ... .  .    .       Joe
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> *Joe Berkovitz*
> President
> Noteflight LLC
> 160 Sidney St, Cambridge, MA 02139
> phone: +1 978 314 6271
> www.noteflight.com
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