02-21-2023, 11:28 PM
I include a typical page from a chamber music production. Many takes have been recorded, each take has a number. In the score, I write down the take number and what was the problem (intonation, ensemble, whatever). That's the many red annotations. No need to list them all as the recorded takes are usually rather short, only a few pages.
But then comes the dress rehearsal or the first of three concerts, and then I'll make notes in a different color, in this case here in yellow.
This would be the typical post-it analogy: in old times, you would have put a sticker onto a page to be able to very quickly find the crucial 12 spots in 300 pages of score.
Here in MSP, I use a yellow color to mark the few spots.
On that sample page, I have three yellow annotations. Ideally, they would appear each in a list of small images, say 50x50 pixels or even smaller. The first one being the scribbled "i" (intonation) as a small jpg, the second a small circle, the third a squiggly line.
Browsing this list, I would very quickly find all the spots where I left a note, and I could see already without going there what the problem was. If I want to go through all spots with intonation problems with the artist, I could easily find and show them.
There's no need to use the keyboard, usually there's no time to really type something. There's also no need to OCR the stylus input. However, it would be useful to optionally quickly add a comment to the note using the keyboard.
If I may dream on: in the context of music production, it would be amazing if each note had a timestamp (MIDI, SMPTE, time-of-day, user-defined start) so that you can export a list of the notes which you can import into a DAW or video editor to quickly jump to the spots. And vice versa, it would be possible to playback a file which can tell MSP to jump to a nearby annotations You could even have special marks for synchronizing audio and PDF... Sorry, I sometimes get a bit wild.... forget the last paragraph :-)
But then comes the dress rehearsal or the first of three concerts, and then I'll make notes in a different color, in this case here in yellow.
This would be the typical post-it analogy: in old times, you would have put a sticker onto a page to be able to very quickly find the crucial 12 spots in 300 pages of score.
Here in MSP, I use a yellow color to mark the few spots.
On that sample page, I have three yellow annotations. Ideally, they would appear each in a list of small images, say 50x50 pixels or even smaller. The first one being the scribbled "i" (intonation) as a small jpg, the second a small circle, the third a squiggly line.
Browsing this list, I would very quickly find all the spots where I left a note, and I could see already without going there what the problem was. If I want to go through all spots with intonation problems with the artist, I could easily find and show them.
There's no need to use the keyboard, usually there's no time to really type something. There's also no need to OCR the stylus input. However, it would be useful to optionally quickly add a comment to the note using the keyboard.
If I may dream on: in the context of music production, it would be amazing if each note had a timestamp (MIDI, SMPTE, time-of-day, user-defined start) so that you can export a list of the notes which you can import into a DAW or video editor to quickly jump to the spots. And vice versa, it would be possible to playback a file which can tell MSP to jump to a nearby annotations You could even have special marks for synchronizing audio and PDF... Sorry, I sometimes get a bit wild.... forget the last paragraph :-)