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Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by sh1mmer » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 2:03 AM UTC

dangrover wrote: post #16

bryanh wrote: post #13

Sorry to nitpick, but the sound in the video is off! It's driving me crazy! This almost makes me want to get an iPad... almost.

Yeah, ffmpeg screwed that up. The h264 and flash versions play correctly. I wish Firefox would just fall back to the flash version rather than going "Oh, it's not Ogg. I guess I'll just give up."

Also happens to me in Chrome.

I love the video but I would love it more as a lightbox closer to iPad size.

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by samstokes » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 2:46 AM UTC

samstokes wrote: post #25

lanstein wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you are, because accents are often left off of capital letters in French.

Huh, didn't know that, but you're right ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_alphabet#Diacritics ). I declare myself out-pedanted :)

Metacomment: I find it amusing that I got more upvotes for providing attribution for a refutation of my own minor criticism of Etude than for my original comment actually discussing Etude.

I guess I'm being rewarded for admitting and embracing my own wrongness!

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by silencio » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 4:28 AM UTC

Awesome work on both the iPhone and iPad version :) I've been grumbling at everyone and their mother telling me about Etude because it's not an app for me, but it's certainly one I will and have recommended to friends that want to learn how to play a real piano. (And it's not for me only because I may suck, but I've been banging away at a piano for over ten years and can sight read most of the pieces in Etude in my sleep. Understandably I am not the audience for this app, a PDF reader with metronome is more suited to my needs... :) )

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by paul9290 » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 7:43 AM UTC

So does the app hear what Im playing and turn the page automatically for me? Huge pain-point for piano players.

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by dangrover » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 8:36 AM UTC

friendstock wrote: post #28

is there a video of this iPad app somewhere? I just tried searching on youtube but couldn't find anything.

There's a video on the front page.

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 9:11 AM UTC

samstokes wrote: post #25

lanstein wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you are, because accents are often left off of capital letters in French.

Huh, didn't know that, but you're right ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_alphabet#Diacritics ). I declare myself out-pedanted :)

Yeah, but they are only because it's a pain to type them on the french AZERTY keyboard: it doesn't have an easy to find dead key for the acute accent.

So either you type an accent-less character, or you waste 10mn looking for a way to have the accent in.

As far as the Académie Française is concerned, diacritics are not optional.

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 9:12 AM UTC

lanstein wrote: post #22

samstokes wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, it bugs me that it's Etude and not Étude, but I'm probably alone in that :)

Yeah, you are, because accents are often left off of capital letters in French.

For technical reason though, the Académie clearly states diacritics are not optional. So it should be Étude indeed.

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by delackner » Thu, Jun 03, 2010, 9:59 AM UTC

sshumaker wrote: post #15

username3 wrote: post #12

Is there anyway to tap to reposition the cursor and play? Loops? A/B?

I would love this - it would be an essential feature for practicing difficult sections.

Indeed the first thing that I tried was to pinch-spread across a section in hopes that that would turn the width I had specified into a looped playback region.

Going to have some fun with this. Bravo!

Re: Etude for iPad is out

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Post by kapuzineralex » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 7:53 AM UTC

Did anyone else notice how the blue-ish marker lags behind the actual position of the piece during playback? Having that in a demo is kind of ridiculous...