EasyKey - quantum leap in music notation - check it out for free

[brother_ali]

Greetings,

It would now seem that the forum has given its views; perhaps we can now dissociate ourselves from this "system", it having been accorded due consideration by a number of members here.

Best,

Alistair

Thanks to all for the fair and open minded consideration.
No sarcasm intended, if it is not warranted.

Ali Rashada
www.easykeymusic.com.au
www.mp3.com.au/AliRashada/music

[ahinton]

Greetings,

Thanks to all for the fair and open minded consideration.
No sarcasm intended, if it is not warranted.

It is indeed not warranted, so we wll perhaps all try to assume that it is accordingly not intended on your part, as you suggest.

There have been plenty of fair and open minded considerations of the subject on this thread and it seems as though appropriate and reasonable conclusions have been drawn following these; this is why I wrote as I did that the matters concerned would now appear to have arrived at some kind of conclusion here, so I would now urge you to accept that fact, having read those members' various contributions, so that we can now all move on.

Thank you.

Best,

Alistair

[sordel]

I don't see any problem with a piano roll system per se and this one seems reasonably clear to me. Perhaps I'm more receptive since I have seen a lot of Guitar tablature and am used to seeing the notation accomodating the instrument.

Nevertheless, EasyKey seems like a dead duck for several reasons.

1. A piano roll system needs to roll: i.e. be animated, which means that it is no real use for "dead tree editions" of classical works. If this is intended for computer-based scores, I would think that you would have massive problems showing that your system was different enough from others to be copyrightable.

2. A piano roll system works for pianos, but how do you transcribe for other instruments? Even if you had a computer system for transcribing to guitar, it would have to be super-intelligent to work out reasonable fingerings.

3. Standard notation is already being used, so the barrier for entry is enormous. It makes more sense for someone to learn to read conventionally-notated music than to learn on an eccentric system for a mechanical benefit only to have to learn a completely different system later.