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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 02:25pm on 2005-12-06 under , ,
Janice jpeg

You are Janice. You dig the groove man, nothing can bum you out.
Too bad you're too stoned to notice.

INSTRUMENT:
Like, you know, guitar, fer sure.

LAST BOOK READ:
Finding Your Past Lives on the Web

FAVORITE EXPRESSION:
"Fer sure, like, fer sure."

FAVORITE THINGS:
Peace, love and, like, granola, totally.

NEVER LEAVES HOME WITHOUT:
Her inner child.

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Yesterday: Not enough sleep, felt pretty shaky, managed to drag myself out of the house in time anyhow; didn't play my best, but didn't fall over either. Apparently this dance usually gets about twenty dancers, but last night the snow scared 'em off and they had about five. Roads were probably a honking mess during rush hour, but by the time I got moving they were slow-but-sane; not a big problem getting from Union Square to Reisterstown. Heard it was worse a bit to the south. I was the first musician to arrive; [livejournal.com profile] maugorn joked that the snow was actually hell freezing over because I'd gotten to a gig earlier than he did.

Today: More sleep (for a change -- *whew*); still feeling a bit draggy though. Hope to make it to rehearsal tonight.


As much as I like ABC, and as comfortable as I am with it, sometimes I just want to plug the bass guitar into the computer, play something, and have the machine transcribe it for me. I'm sure such tools exist; I've not yet gotten around to finding out whether there are free/cheap ones that are any good. This'd be a lot easier if I had a MIDI input device I could play, but I don't. (There's a keyboard here that doesn't belong to me but hasn't been picked up yet, which may have a MIDI port, but I don't play keyboard well enough to use it for this purpose; and I don't have a guitar MIDI controller.) I should try to wake up a little more, stop being lazy, and just start transcribing ...

Actually, I'm torn between staying here, putting off most of my to-do list (especially errands) until tomorrow, moving slowly and resting often, and saving my energy for rehearsal, or getting off my butt and getting stuff done to Get It Out Of My Way and give me more flexibility for the second half of the week, at the risk of crashing when I should be getting ready to head to College Park.

Urk. There was a lot more to write about in my head as I was falling asleep last night. Seemed like more interesting stuff, too. Hope I remember it later.

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geekosaur: orange tabby with head canted 90 degrees, giving impression of "maybe it'll make more sense if I look at it this way?" (Default)
posted by [personal profile] geekosaur at 07:31pm on 2005-12-06
Dunno about free/cheap; Finale Guitar (low-end non-free version, was < $100 when I last looked at it) supports it, or at least used to.

(No idea how well it works, as I don't have any machines with MIDI input.)
geekosaur: orange tabby with head canted 90 degrees, giving impression of "maybe it'll make more sense if I look at it this way?" (Default)
posted by [personal profile] geekosaur at 07:36pm on 2005-12-06
$100, still supports it. "Finale SongWriter" at $50 can also accept MIDI input.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:55pm on 2005-12-06
It'll take an analog signal from a non-MIDI guitar, and figure out what notes it's "hearing"?

I knew that capture-from-MIDI was common, and can even do that for free. (If I can record the MIDI stream into a .mid file, there's a tool that attempts to convert it to ABC.) I'm not sure whether you're saying that low-end versions of Finale just do that, or that they do so in addition to being able to digitize and interpret an analog signal (which is what I was talking about). If Finale Guitar lets me play my analog axe right into the dound card and transcribes it for me, I need to start saving up for a copy.
geekosaur: orange tabby with head canted 90 degrees, giving impression of "maybe it'll make more sense if I look at it this way?" (Default)
posted by [personal profile] geekosaur at 08:01pm on 2005-12-06
FG claims it has "single analog instrument input" support. I think that's what they mean.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 09:08pm on 2005-12-06
*drool* Alrighty then, a copy of a low-end version of Finale goes on the save-up-for list!
 
posted by [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com at 09:36pm on 2005-12-06
Oooooh, I think I gotta get me some of that. Any word on the street for how well it handles bass?
geekosaur: orange tabby with head canted 90 degrees, giving impression of "maybe it'll make more sense if I look at it this way?" (Default)
posted by [personal profile] geekosaur at 09:43pm on 2005-12-06
No idea — I have an ancient version of Finale Allegro, need to upgrade it at some point, can't sanely do Guitar because it doesn't run natively on OSX (and it looks like they can't make up their minds whether they like Allegro or Guitar...) and I'm not sure I trust it to work in Classic mode.

(And I'm no guitarist; brass and woodwinds.)
 
posted by [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com at 09:43pm on 2005-12-06
Tee hee! Thanks for the quiz link. I'm Gonzo. (-:

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