On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 16:48, Anthony Towns wrote: > > No, you wouldn't. There seem to me to be plenty of ways to have an XML > format for music that would be plausibly editable. Think scores and things. Works great for some types of music, but other types is routinely put through a lot of filters, both digital and analogue, that won't work to well with that form. Or is created with artificial sounds. > > > I don't think it could be > > considered straitforward to revise that with a text editor. > > - <note timbre="trumpet">C#</note> > + <note timbre="trumpet">D</note> Yes, now, where is the source to this trumpet timbre? You may argue, "but it's a TRUMPET!", but there are a lot of weird sounds used in music that have a similar issue. And, btw, note how differently two different violinists can render a solo. > > Seems pretty straightforward to me. Maybe, if all the world were a single MIDI synthasizer. > ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- > you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer!'' <off-topic> /me suspects that scribbled over the whole test were the words "debootstrap woody /mnt" </off-topic>
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