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Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

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How did you make the video for the homepage? I like the circle that represents a touch.

I think SimFinger is the app used to represent touch.

Atebits has a nice iPhone demo tutorial: http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-scre...

Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

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post #63

How did you make the video for the homepage? I like the circle that represents a touch.

I think SimFinger is the app used to represent touch. Atebits has a nice iPhone demo tutorial: http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-scre...

Actually, I used my own app, PhoneFinger: http://wonderwarp.com/phonefinger

Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

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This gives me that really excited feeling in my gut that I get when I see something cool. I've always wanted to learn how to play piano, but I was always overwhelmed by diving right in. This is why the iPad is going to be so cool.

Do you have plans to do this for other instruments? I can see it being enormously popular for guitar tab, especially if you can add your own tabs to it.

EDIT: Additionally, I think $3 is a perfect introductory price. If you've built a large enough following, you can leverage that to increase the price (perhaps by offering updates/large additional music libraries?) at a later date.

Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

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I don't think that's the deal breaker for experienced players. That'd be pretty to solve with a bluetooth foot-pedal. Here are a few of the things that come to mind that pro-level folks would have hang-ups on: • Typesetting: I don't know what score format they're using, but this can be a big one. There's a big difference between a professionally engraved score and just having the right notes there. • Annotations: Fro…

It was mentioned elsewhere that the typesetting is done via LilyPond, which is supposed to be excellent.

Just like tex the quality has potential to the very good, but when you stray from the defaults it suddenly takes a lot of tweaking to produce a nice-looking score.

Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

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Incidentally, the very last company I worked at (before realizing I should do my own thing) was Tapulous :)

So you must know Kyle Kinkade, then? He and I have been drinking buddies since we met at MSFT in early '07

I do know Kyle! Cool guy! Luckily, he managed to escape too (and with more tact than I)

Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

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Some really basic audio recognition should enable the software to figure out the current position on the sheet, hence making it useful for experienced players as well.

really basic? score following is hard.

you don't have to follow it in perfect-realtime, you could totally mimic a human page-turner who flips the page at about the right time.

Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

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Is it just me or does the note play when it hits the left edge of the highlight? This seems counter intuitive.

Yeah, the "flip page" setting definitely plays the note on the left-edge of the highlight whereas the continuous setting plays it in the middle....
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