[Menvi-discuss] Some ideas for software tools

[Marc Sabatella]

Fwiw, the Braille Music Compiler by Mario Lang (same developer as FreeDots, a MusicXML to Braille converter) is designed to convert Braille to print, currently by way of LilyPond.  He's in the process of moving the Braie Music Compiler project to a different web site. Here's the new site, although it's very much in the "still moving in" stages:

https://bmc.branchable.com/

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Marc Sabatella
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On Aug 26, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Bettie & Bill Downing <bnbdowning70 at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> I see a huge problem in getting music braille to backtrack into print.  Simple music, maybe.  Complicated, hardly.
> 
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> On Aug 26, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Dani L Pagador wrote:
> 
>> Hi, David.
>> I'm coming to this thread late in the game--I've been fighting my own
>> computer demons, but won't go in to the story here--and would be thrilled if
>> what you're talking about could be developed. I'd love to beta test for
>> this. It would seem there would need to be translation software that would
>> translate music braille code in to standard notation.
>> 
>> I'm taking arranging classes, and do a lot of work while in transit, away
>> from my PC. I sketch ideas on my notetaker, then have to input the ideas
>> again on the PC when I get home to see if what I think should work really
>> does. It would be great to be able to use my iPod Touch for music notation
>> and playback.
>> 
>> More Later,
>> Dani
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
>> David Goldstein - Resource Center
>> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 4:12 AM
>> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
>> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Some ideas for software tools
>> 
>> What do you students think about software that would run on a mobile device
>> that could be used for taking down melodic dictation?  A configuration we're
>> starting to see a lot now is a mobile device paired with a braille display
>> or notetaker that has its own braille keyboard.  With such a system, the
>> teacher could play the exercise, you could write it on the braille keyboard,
>> and then, when he comes around to glance at students' papers, you just hold
>> up your mobile device, like the way people these days show an attendant a
>> boarding pass on their mobile device's screen?
>> 
>> And if the technology decided not to work at that particular moment, it
>> would look so cool and trendy that perhaps the teacher wouldn't notice
>> <smile> or you might have a record of it on your notetaker to read to the
>> teacher after class, as some of us do now.
>> 
>> David
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