LilyPond is a free, open-source, cross-platform music notation application known for generating high-quality musical scores. It can now be used to create sheet music in TwinNote and translate scores from traditional notation into TwinNote.
Needless to say this is a very exciting development!
Going beyond just single melodic notes, the “AudioVisualizer” on the TwinNote homepage can now show and play harmonic intervals. Just click the Intervals button and then select which intervals you want to see and hear. Continue reading
I recently realized that shifting the notes on the TwinNote staff up by a semitone offered some nice advantages. Here are the old and new note layouts, showing just the “natural” notes from the C major scale:
I have made some improvements to TwinNote in recent months and wanted to blog about them and document the changes.
In January as I was working on the new AudioVisualizer home page I realized that what I had been calling the “Max 6-6” version of TwinNote should be the official, default version of TwinNote. It became clear that using hollow and solid notes for pitch (rather than duration) really made notes and intervals a lot easier to read… Continue reading
You can now download and print blank staff paper and try your hand at writing music in TwinNote. It is available in PDF file format in the Sheet Music section of this site. There is currently a sheet of standard two octave TwinNote staves, and another sheet of four octave grand staves for piano music. (Eventually it would be nice to also provide a sheet of three-octave staves for classical guitar and other instruments with a three octave range.)
Announcing the TwinNote AudioVisualizer — a fun, interactive, and engaging way to test-drive TwinNote.
Ever wonder why TwinNote was designed in the way that it was? Or what other alternative notation systems inspired and influenced it? A new Influences page takes you on a tour through a series of alternative notation systems that had an impact on TwinNote’s design. It serves as a quick introduction to the chromatic staff approach to music notation, and shows how TwinNote builds upon other alternative notation systems, illustrating the particular ways in which it improves upon them (at least in our humble opinion). Continue reading
