MAKING NOTES
Development diary, part 11
After the last instalment's detailed discussion of beam grouping and sloping, today's development update is going to focus on some of the issues around laying out a page of music, in particular working in the horizontal dimension, including casting off and...
Development diary, part 10
As a wise man once said, there are as many rules of music engraving as there are music engravers. This is a joke, of course, but perhaps only half of one: although there are certain aspects of how music notation should be presented that more or less everybody can...
Development diary, part nine
As the year draws to a close, thoughts naturally turn to the events of the past twelve months, and indeed to the promise of the year ahead. For us, the past year represents a lot of forward progress on our project, but the year ahead will bring more milestones on the...
Development diary, part eight
As summer gives way to autumn here in London, it's time for another update on our progress. As the photo above shows, there is great satisfaction to be gained from lining things up just so. In this post, I'm going to discuss two of the areas in which we have expended...
Development diary, part seven
It's been almost three months since the last instalment in this series, so it's high time for another update on our progress. In this update, as promised I will share some information about our music font, Bravura, and the project we have been leading to standardise...
Development diary, part six
In the last update, we started discussing some of the individual engines that are under development to handle atomic notation and engraving tasks, and I described the engines for note and rest grouping, and positioning rests in multiple voices. Let's take a look at...
Development diary, part the fifth
All of a sudden, over the past week I have received lots of requests for an update on our progress, so here we go. My last update was at the start of November, on the occasion of the first anniversary of our team joining Steinberg. This new update comes more or less...
Watch Daniel on The Audio Podcast #104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1gUXFi4GBg Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Scott, Adam and Samuel of The Audio Podcast about our in-development scoring application. We discuss why we need another scoring application, what benefits a Lua plug-in API...
Development diary, part four
One year ago today, my colleagues and I began work on our new scoring application in our new home at Steinberg. To mark this anniversary, I thought I would bring you right up to date with our progress. My last update took us up to the end of July, so there are three...
Development diary, part three
In my last post, I started to bring you up to date on our progress over the past few months, and today I'm going to continue the story. You have probably by now come to expect a fair amount of nerdy detail, and hopefully I won't disappoint. The image above is a...