Hello everybody!
I'm currently working on a little tab database for the iPhone.
I don't want to do much advertising here, so if someone wants to
know more,
take a look at http://bluenotes.t-no.de/index.html.en
The reason for this post is that I want to get some feedback about
useful features
and the preferences of other players.
One important question for me is how to display tabs, as there seems
to be no real
standard:
I know a system using arrows (which is hard to read, and even harder
to typeset),
and then there are many variants looking like "4 4 -4 4" or "+4 +4 4
+4".
The problem with the second system is that there is no natural way
of denoting
bends or overblows, so I'd like to hear about established ways to
indicate the use
of such techniques.
I guess textual representation of notes ("C C C# C") are not very
attractive for most
of you - but, of course, there is still the graphical, staff-based
approach... just tell
what you prefer.
There are plenty of other things I'm thinking of - but most topics
might be to special for
a discusion on the whole list, so feel free to contact me directly
if you have some comments:
- lyrics (line-based vs. note-based)
- build-in synthesizer
- links to audio files in iTunes
- rating of existing file formats (MIDI, ABC, MusicXML)
- importance of editing/creation-capabilities and ways how to handle
those
- ...
Greetings,
Tino
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