2010/11/5 João Pais
do you have his contact? for some reason, brasilian universities don't have the contact of their teachers on their pages.

I don't know if you already see this website: http://music.columbia.edu/~alessi/ it has an e-mail but is very outdated...

2010/11/6 Ed Kelly
In fact, it's a painful process. The kind of object you are talking about would be much nicer - but only if it could also cope with complete rhythmic elements (ties, beaming, time sigs etc) for me.

I absolutely think that rhythmic elements should be added. I thought the best would be to have an object just for pitches, another just for rhythm and maybe one that displays both.

2010/11/5 Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton@libero.it>

I still think you could do all the CAC 'logic' in Pd and use external tools for the music notation part.

I could do it, no doubt about it, and I think that I will eventualy (I'm having some troubles with jack in my computer though, but that's another problem). Still, what I want is something to display the pitches inside Pd while I'm working with the algorithms, honestly, all those hacks are not as good as a tool like those from PWGL or OpenMusic. I know that Pd was not tought as a CAC program, but on the other side, It was not tought as a video rendering software either...

2010/11/6 Aykut Caglayan

Did you try Fomus?
http://fomus.sourceforge.net/
it's supposed to be used with Pd too.
Fomus is very functional to transpose numerical data flow into musical notation

Looks nice. Didn't have the chance to try it yet. It can solve a lot of problems but, again, the ideal would be to display the notation at the same time as I do the math. Now that I think about it, transforming the notation into a Lilypond/Sibelius/Finale/MusicXML/PostScript file should be a second step, the first is to have a notation interface inside Pd. The notation display tools form PWGL and OpenMusic work that way: after you are happy with the results, than you can export to you notation software.

Don't get me wrong, all those ideas were very very helpful and I will try them, but since we are just talking about an (yet) hypothetical tool, I think we should consider what would be the best thing to have for that poupose. Pd has a lot of potential as a CAC tool (we are already doing it) and a notation display is something that I feel is essential for that task.

Caio