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1. #Harmony assistant software translate midi into roll prints update
2. #Harmony assistant software translate midi into roll prints full

We wanted to see first-hand the strengths and weaknesses of SCORE’s almost entirely graphical (rather than semantic) approach towards score production. Later in the month, we had a visit from an expert SCORE engraver, Simon Smith, who works for Boosey and Hawkes in London and Éditions Durand in Paris. The venerable SCORE, in the hands of expert engraver Simon Smith. Of course, the Steinberg booth was packed every day, and the show attendees were wowed by the new products on display, in particular Wavelab 8, which was launched at the show, and Cubasis for iPad, not to mention the continued excitement around Cubase 7, released a few months before.

#Harmony assistant software translate midi into roll prints full

I came away from the show energised by what I had seen and full of ideas about how our new application might fit into this ecosystem of interesting companies all coming at the intersection of music notation and technology from different angles. I was fortunate enough to attend the show for a couple of days, and filled those days talking to interesting folks working in our field, including Michael Good of MusicXML fame, Joe Berkovitz of Noteflight, Dominik Hörnel of Scorio, Thomas Bonte of MuseScore, Yair Lavi of Tonara, Bob Hamblok and Jonas Coomans of NeoScores, and others besides. The biggest event in any given April for a company like Steinberg is Musikmesse, the huge trade show that takes place in Frankfurt every spring. The Steinberg booth at Musikmesse, under construction. Our timeline is now nine months long, and lots of good stuff has been happening. As the meeting goes along, we write down any milestones we’ve reached during that sprint, and put them up on the timeline (good things are green, obstacles or impediments are pink - fortunately there have been relatively few of the latter, so far). The sprint review meeting at the end of each iteration serves both as a forum to share what we’ve been working on, including a little bit of show and tell where possible, and to plan the next sprint.

For those of you not familiar with software development methodology, Steinberg uses agile development, which is based around short spans of work (our team uses two weeks, and other teams within Steinberg use four) with an emphasis on achieving measurable progress in that time.

#Harmony assistant software translate midi into roll prints update

The image above is our project timeline, which we update every two weeks at our sprint review meetings. Warning: this post is pretty nerdy, and very long… and it only covers April and May. It’s been four months since I last provided an update on our progress in building our new scoring application, so I thought it was about time to lift the curtain a little bit and give you some idea about what we’ve been working on.