Yes, that’s the one.
He does use some tools though to measure things.
Those were the days, my friend…
Oh yeah! This!
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How would that be controlled? Presumably it would not be randomized by the playback engine.
Good question. I pulled out my “Dictionary of Musical Themes” (it has 10k!) and perused … well there’s movement to pause (short to long notes), and also pitch based phrasing is already detected by Dorico for emphasis humanization. Just back of the envelope checks but that might catch much of it. Anyhow last time they had some some academic research, there’s probably some for this too.
+1
Rubato humanizing didn’t come to my mind yet
I believe that it is in automating certain tasks and improving productivity where Dorico could introduce revolutionary features that provide significant added value to users. As an arranger, I often perform repetitive operations that could be automated.
Here are a few examples that come to mind:
- Easily changing one rhythm into another (e.g., transforming three eighth notes into a triplet with one eighth note and two sixteenth notes).
- Automatically separating two instruments entered on the same staff. Currently, this only works when the rhythms are identical. It is very time-consuming to do manually when working with an XML file where two instruments are entered on the same staff.
- Improving the XML import of percussion sets. Most of the time, I have to manually adjust them when importing my old Sibelius files.
- Filtering notes by rhythm or articulation or other properties.
If Dorico could automate these tasks in the future, it would significantly boost my productivity.