RE: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hey Graham, > No help on the technical issues, but as a string player, I > generally see harmonics as only two notes (the bottom two). The > first time I saw three notes was in a Stravinski orchestral part, > and it took me a moment to figure out what it was. > > Could you also invent a two-not

Re: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:56:35PM +, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I figured I'd do it in two steps: > 1. Create a function that takes a chord of three notes, and formats each > note(head) appropriately. > 2. Modify the function to take one or two notes, and generate the other parts > of > the no

Re: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/15 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi Neil, > > Thanks for the help. > >> Tricky without another voice, since there's only one stem for all the >> noteheads. You can change the length of a stem by overriding 'length, >> but you'd need to be careful about stem direction because negative >> values will b

RE: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Neil, Thanks for the help. > Tricky without another voice, since there's only one stem for all the > noteheads. You can change the length of a stem by overriding 'length, > but you'd need to be careful about stem direction because negative > values will be required, and you won't be able to

Re: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/15 Kieren MacMillan : > I'm trying to come up with a Scheme function to generate string harmonics > automatically. Why on earth would you want to do that. ;) You might like to take a look at Valentin's function here (though it uses separate voices): http://repo.or.cz/w/opera_libre.git?a=

creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> Top posting is often superior to bottom-posting. [Sorry... the web email interface I'm forced to use while my MacBook is in for repairs clearly messed up the last post, so I'm forced to used gmane. =\] Hello, all! I'm trying to come up with a Scheme function to generate string harmonics autom

Creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello, all! I'm trying to come up with a Scheme function to generate string harmonics automatically. I figured I'd do it in two steps: 1. Create a function that takes a chord of three notes, and formats each note(head) appropriately. 2. Modify the function to take one or two notes, and