Monday, January 16th, 2006
I found the iTunes Signature Maker at the blog of Ryan Shaw this evening. Extremely cool little idea to take your iTunes playlist and make a short little audio avitar of your musical tastes. Here is mine.
The creation of the file requires you to trust a Java applet to scan ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
This is such a simple thing, and I call this a major oversight on the part of the software vendor: I kept getting errors when trying to access the user manual or tutorials from within Finale PrintMusic 2006, getting errors that read something like "Could not open PMTOC.pdf". I found ...
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Saturday, November 19th, 2005
During my recent round of trying to evaluate the right music notation software for myself, I came across an XML application that I can truly relate to: MusicXML.
Much like how MathML is used to describe mathematical documents, MusicXML does this for music. It's brilliant. Just looking at the spec, I ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
Apple - iLife - GarageBand - Explore While you're recording Software Instrument performances, you can watch your performance unfold by viewing the tracks in full music notation. Fast on its feet, GarageBand generates notation in real time, instantly displaying notes, rests and other musical events. Great ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2004
iMix: Peaceful Tones Testing the iMix capability of iTunes 4.5 - This one is a mix of stuff I've been listening to lately that is beautiful, relaxing, and inspiring. Highly recommended - you're sure to like it. You will need iTunes 4.5 or greater for the link above
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