now for something completely different

Attention Francois! And anyone interested in awesome
software for transcribing sound recordings!

http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/index.html

I've used a lot of software. Strictly from a design point
of view, I feel the above program is one of the best I've
ever used, of any kind.

But more than that, the functionality is *incredible*.
The demo has nothing more than a nag screen, and it can
be purchased (I have done so) for a mere US$40.

Now to convince him to add Scala file support...

-Carl

Carl,

Just needed to chime in, because:

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
> Attention Francois! And anyone interested in awesome
> software for transcribing sound recordings!
>
> http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/index.html

I've used it for over a year - I found it by looking for an xscribe app for someone else - and it really is a very good tool for xscription. But you've got me puzzled about the following:

> Now to convince him to add Scala file support...

I've used it to xscribe .wav files - how would you have it interact with Scala?

Cheers,
Jon

>> http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/index.html
>
//
>> Now to convince him to add Scala file support...
>
>I've used it to xscribe .wav files - how would you have it interact
>with Scala?

I suggested the following...

>() Reading cents from the spectrum analysis view. You're
>using left-click for the harmonic guidelines. Perhaps
>right-click would drop a single guideline with the cents
>value represented by the line printed above. The cents
>could be mesaured relative to concert pitch.
>
>() A little fancier would be the ability to click on the
>spectrum view to drop a guideline and drag to pull a 2nd
>line away from the first, with the interval between the
>lines (in cents) being printed above.
>
>() Finally, it would be great to have, as an option to the
>piano keyboard at the bottom, just a plain ruler with a
>user-defined scale marked off on it. The user would define
>the scale by loading a Scala .scl file, of course...
>
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/scl_format.html
>
>Thanks for listening!

-C.