Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!fwi.uva.nl!gene!leeuw From: leeuw@fwi.uva.nl (Jacco de Leeuw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio Subject: Re: Music Publishing Software Message-ID: <1991May14.114402.29680@fwi.uva.nl> Date: 14 May 91 11:44:02 GMT References: <20949@cbmvax.commodore.com> <91127.120734DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> <28365@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 75 Nntp-Posting-Host: irene.fwi.uva.nl vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >I know there's another package as well, in addition to Copyist and the >TeX macro packages. I saw it in Commodore's boot at Amiga'90 in >Cologne. What little I saw of it seemed very good, the package was >clearly made for professional music typists. I would have bought it >myself, but my sporadic usage would not have justified its price (it >wasn't exactly cheap). Some weak memory signal tells me it was put out >by a German company, but the name is gone. > Maybe someone else remember seeing this and can tell us where it is >available. Perhaps someone organizing the Commodore display boot for >that show would be able to help you out as well. I tried looking >through the archive, but didn't find anything (I'm sure they had >flyers...) >-- Leonard I think I know what package you mean. I've got one of these flyers in front of me. It's a special reprint from a german magazine, "Amiga Magazine", Ausgabe 8/1990. The program is called "NotaScript", I'll try to sum up some of the facts: (First the pictures: B/W hi-res (A2024?) screen-dumps from the program. Difficult to describe for me as a non-musician. I could try to scan it and post it?) - All text in German (yuck!). Maybe there's an English version out now? - Examples: pressing key 'v' = 1/4 note, tail(?) of note up, 'V' tail down. 'a' = 1/8 note up, 'A' = 1/8 note down etc. (German: viertel, achtel) - Placing and removing notes, letters and symbols with cursorkeys. - Max. format of paper: A3. - Rastralsizes not limited. E.g. Rastral nr.2 = 1,880 mm. - User-interface is like a direct dialog. Everybody can use it in one day (hmmmm... :). - With an additional program you can make your own symbols. - WYSIWYG-principle. - Macro's. - Advanced transposition, reversing of the tails possible. - Text: 2 fonts, 3 sizes and 24 styles each. - Prints on: 24 dots matrixprinters, inkjetprinters and laserprinters (with HPGL emulation) and plotters. Planned additions (maybe already done?): - PostScript. - MIDI-input. (Something I missed: HEARING a note when you place it. That's why a friend of mine still uses DMCS, and then transfers it to the Copyist for additional editing and printing). Info: NotaScript, DM 7000 (I think around $3500) NotaScript Jr, DM 998 Distributor: Feuchtlinger & Gleichauf Musikverlag GmbH Postfach 110240 / Niedermuenstergasse 2 8400 Regensburg 11 Germany Tel. 09 41/5 30 05 "Ansprechpartner": Herr Kern Fax: 09 41/ 5 43 39 Remember, I have no connections with this company. I've just typed in some of things from the flyer as a service to all of you outthere... Jacco de Leeuw (leeuw@fwi.uva.nl) PS. Just one more quote :) "Bach und Beatles waeren froh gewesen, haetten sie NotaScript gehabt." -- Jacco de Leeuw | Email: leeuw@fwi.uva.nl J.C. van Wessemstr. 54 | Department of Computer Science 1501 VM Zaandam, Holland | Plantage Muidergracht 24 Room 106a Home phone: +31-75-352068 | 1018 TV Amsterdam, Holland