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Staffpad: writing scores by hand and transform them into MIDI

Staffpad: writing scores by hand and transform them into MIDI

Staffpad is a new application developed by Microsoft and the dream come true of every composer and arranger. It is a music notation application designed to work with pen and touch input your Windows 8.1 compatible device and touch screen.

When writing with pencil notation, StaffPad recognizes your handwritten music and becomes a notation that you can edit, play, print and share in various formats, combining the best of writing on paper with the advantages of digital publishing.Staffpad was designed by Matthew Tesch and David William Hearn, who."As musicians, we know that is not always practical or possible to lead a workstation complete recipe with you. Instead, the idea of ​​combining the fluidity and ease of handwritten with efficiency and accuracy of typesetting, assisted by a computer, music became too strong to ignore. We found the experience StaffPad composition should feel natural, fun and intuitive, yet powerful and reliable enough for it to be used by professionals. We have been working for over 3 years to bring StaffPad, with new ideas and advances to a new type of application notation, focusing on every detail so that the composition StaffPad is done with the least possible effort. "In addition to handwriting, Staffpad offers a variety of sounds in your bank of musical instruments, the ability to print both the full score as particella of each instrument, editing notes and joints and the enormous advantage of import and export MIDI files and MusicXML format. What more could you want?For more information on cost, features, compatibility, and download, go to the page StaffPad.

Someone made a piano in the shape of a classic Nintendo console and played Mario music on it

By Daniel Ross, 7th August 2015, 16:46

Is there a better way to use technology than turning a piano into a huge retro NES console and then playing a medley of Koji Kondo superhits on it? No. No there is not.

image: http://assets3.classicfm.com/2015/31/nintendo-piano-1438962331-article-0.jpg

The piano is the brainchild of the YouTube channel Player Piano, who got pianist Sonya Belousova to play a medley of tunes from the soundtrack of Nintendo classic Super Mario Bros.

Right, let’s take a tour of this pianistic wonder of the gaming world, shall we?


First of all, it’s even got the right cables
Red and yellow is the colour of nostalgia.
image: http://i.imgur.com/RpuoaHo.png

The piano stool is a NES controller

It couldn’t be anything else, could it?
image: http://i.imgur.com/Vjm3OHO.png

There are POWER and RESET buttons on the front

The detail is sending our nerd receptors into overdrive.
image: http://i.imgur.com/G58r6is.png

And then, the ultimate cartridge console-based nod to the past

Nothing worse than a dusty cartridge. *cries tears of ecstasy*
image: http://i.imgur.com/BUM1FWA.gif

Watch the whole glorious thing here: 

Read more at http://www.classicfm.com/discover/video-game-music/nintendo-piano/#zLeRszw5fi0OsIdT.99

Today 150 years ago, born Alexander Glazunov  in St Petersburg Russia. (10 August 1865 - 21 March 1936)

Alexander Glazunov was born into a wealthy family and began very early to deal with music. This fell on especially his amazing musical memory and his excellent hearing. 1880 Glazunov began on the recommendation of Mily Balakirev a private study with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who was impressed by the talent of his pupil. The first performance of Glazunov's Symphony no. 1 in 1882 was the breakthrough for the young composer. Under the leadership of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera he completed Borodin's Prince Igor. He also became acquainted with the patron Mitrofan Belyayev, who supported him in the following years. After Glazunov was promoted in the 1890s to an internationally recognized personality, he took in 1899 a professor of orchestration at the St Petersburg Conservatory. In 1905 he took over as head of this institute, which he held until 1930. In February 1910, he took on Six Piano Pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano. During this time took his compositional productivity, due to the time required and its unique commitment to the interests of this institution, significantly. He discovered many talents and worked tirelessly for a student. 1928 Glazunov traveled to Vienna, where he participated as a jury member at the International Schubert Competition. His poor health did not allow him to return so that he settled in Paris. Here he remained until his death. 1972 his remains were (again today St. Petersburg) was transferred to Leningrad and buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
The ship Kompozitor Glazunov was named after him.

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The First SLA 3D Printed Electric Violin is Here! It’s Amazing & It’s Clear!

by Eddie Krassenstein · August 7, 2015

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Over the past year or so, we have really begun to see musicians and designers utilizing 3D printing technology in order to create unique, custom, and incredibly sounding musical instruments. We’ve seen everything from guitars to cellos, flutes and violins all fabricated on 3D printers of all kinds. Most of these instruments have been created either on FDM/FFF based 3D printers similar to those found on many of our desktops at home, or large industrial level selective laser sintering (SLS)machines. Now, however, one musician, named Laurent Bernadac had taken things up another notch. Laurent Bernadac, you see, has taken it upon himself to create a fully playable electric violin which has been printed using stereolithographic (SLA) technology. This has allowed him to create one of the most astonishing violins you will ever see.
Called the 3D Varius, not only does it play crystal clear music, but its bout (body), neck and the majority of the rest of the instrument is 3D printed in a clear material as well.

“The goal was to create a unique design, inspired by the shape of a traditional violin, and refining the forms and supports to obtain a more aesthetic design, simpler, lighter and transparent,” Bernadac explains. “Our choice of 3d-printing technology is stereolithography* because of its exceptional printing definition and the resistance of its printed objects.”

Bernadac’s design is actually based on a Stradivarius violin; a violin which was built by members of the Stradivari family during the 17th and 18th centuries. It is 3D printed in one single piece, which strays quite a bit from traditional violin production, using UV light to cure a liquid photo-reactive resin. This method of 3D printing builds up highly detailed and precise objects in a matter of hours.

“Combining the precision and power of 3D-printing with ancient violin-making skills, its innovative design, in the service of violinist, marks a further step towards the perfect symbiosis between musician and instrument,” Bernadac explains.

Once the violin was 3D printed, it required a quick clean-up before being put under a strong UV light in order to completely polymerize the entire structure. This ensures that it is completely cured and as strong as can be. Then the surfaces of the violin, which comes into contact with the strings or the musician’s body, are sanded down in order to “offer optimal playing comfort”. It’s then off to stringing the instrument, a process which must be done with complete precision and care in order to ensure that it plays with the clarity it is capable of.
While Bernadac says that the violin is fully 3D printed, in actuality it isn’t entirely fabricated on a 3D printer, as of course the strings are not 3D printed, nor are the tuning pegs. However, the majority the instrument in fact is.
As you can hear in the videos on this page, the violin’s sound is as crystal clear as the instrument itself. Could SLA 3D printing prove to be the preferred printing method for 3D printing musical instruments? Bernadac’s 3D Varius may prove this to be true. What do you think about this unique, yet beautiful 3D printed violin? Discuss in the 3D Varius forum thread on 3DPB.com.