MIDI guitar sheet music player in .net

9 Mar 2006 8:24 PM

tony.held

Hi all,

I would like to develop software that displays guitar sheet music and
play it via midi. I plan on using visual studio .net 2005 (probably VB
but maybe C#). I was thinking about having the stanza illuminate notes
as they are played and allow the user to adjust the playback speed for
learning purposes. I think I can put together the midi part, but I'm
having trouble deciding the best way to implement the interface. I was
hoping to create a kind of drag and drop designer that creates custom
controls for notes which can be put into a panel representing the
measure. Any off the cuff advice on how I should implement the
interface (i.e. what controls should I inherit from?) or a good object
model? Issues such as notes background transparency and snapping to
the sheet music lines are not fully cemented yet.

Thanks, Tony (tony_h***@hotmail.com)

PS if you think I'm posting in the wrong newsgroup feel free to
recommend a more appropriate location.

9 Mar 2006 10:24 PM

Ken Tucker [MVP]

Hi,

Check out Carls Midi Tools

http://training.franklins.net/dotnet.aspx

Ken
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news:1141935873.160325.43700@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to develop software that displays guitar sheet music and
> play it via midi. I plan on using visual studio .net 2005 (probably VB
> but maybe C#). I was thinking about having the stanza illuminate notes
> as they are played and allow the user to adjust the playback speed for
> learning purposes. I think I can put together the midi part, but I'm
> having trouble deciding the best way to implement the interface. I was
> hoping to create a kind of drag and drop designer that creates custom
> controls for notes which can be put into a panel representing the
> measure. Any off the cuff advice on how I should implement the
> interface (i.e. what controls should I inherit from?) or a good object
> model? Issues such as notes background transparency and snapping to
> the sheet music lines are not fully cemented yet.
>
> Thanks, Tony (tony_h***@hotmail.com)
>
> PS if you think I'm posting in the wrong newsgroup feel free to
> recommend a more appropriate location.
>

9 Mar 2006 10:57 PM

Ken Halter

<tony.h***@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1141935873.160325.43700@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to develop software that displays guitar sheet music and
> play it via midi. I plan on using visual studio .net 2005 (probably VB

Since you crossposted to dotNet and non-dotNet groups....

For future reference...

You'll want to post that question in a .Net group.
They all contain "dotnet" or "vsnet" in their names.
This and all other groups on the MS server that start with
"microsoft.public.vb"
are for VB Classic (mostly VB5/6) and were in existance long before any .Net
products were released. While some of the code looks the same, they are very
different products and require a different set of groups.

Try one of these:
news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.dotnet.general
news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.controls
news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop

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