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Re: Drum tab translation feature

2005-01-17 by guynthomas

Shoulda put this on my last post but forgot.

Does anyone know a quick way to get midifiles to either TABS or 
SCRIPT?

Don't seem to get all that many tabs for drum music.

Anyone help!

Guy



--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Stephanie Ellison 
<deafdrummer@d...> wrote:
> Hi gang!
> 
> I'm working with a software programmer who is updating his music 
notation
> program with bug fixes and feature additions.  One feature I have 
asked for is
> the ability for the notation program to take a drum tab sheet and 
decode it into
> standard notation.  There is one at
> http://drumtabdecoder.takethepowerback.de/index.php
> Here you can paste in text and print it out.  However, there are a 
number of
> issues.  You can't save the file, and it won't be able to take 
triplet 16ths or
> quintuplets and render them that way.  It doesn't print all that 
great, either. 
> But is the only one I know of that is available at all.
> 
> My question to you was posed by the programmer; is there a demand 
from drummers
> who want to convert drum tabs to standard notation?
> 
> Let me know, and I'll see what I can give to the programmer.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> =====
> Stephanie Ellison AKA Deaf Drummer
> 
> deafdrummer.org

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