Thread: Digital Music Score
View Single Post
Old 03-03-2018, 09:54 PM   #37
davidfor
Grand Sorcerer
davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 24,905
Karma: 47303824
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos
Quote:
Originally Posted by macminer View Post
Nonetheless, I don't think this particular device is up to its intended purpose. There are too many flaws already mentioned in this thread, to which I'll add just one. This is the same flaw that many e-learning textbooks share. They are laid out and devised by people who have experience mostly with paper textbooks, so they actually replicate in digital all the limitations of the "analogue" world. One example would be the idea of "repeats", "codas" etc. While on paper they need to be marked with special signs and the artist has to flip pages to and fro, in digital they should be treated more or less as "shadow copies" (as they are calles in some DAW apps) so no returns or flipping back should ever be needed.
From the web site, it looks like they have made some attempt to do this. There are some details about organising the pages of the score so that only paging forward is used. It doesn't appear to be automatic, but the user of the device has to organise what they need, but it looks like they can order the pages so that a group of pages will be repeated however many times it is needed. The "shadow copies" sounds like a good description to me.

Of course, it would be better if the digitisation of the score and the software displaying it handled this automatically. Some of these are up to the interpretation of the performer, and what is done while learning a new piece is different, so something like this would need to be customisable. My experience with this is fairly low (turning pages for other family members) and I've never really looked at the software available, so maybe something is already available to do this.
davidfor is offline   Reply With Quote