Learn To Play Saxophone with the help of computers

Demo folder of zip file
500SaxTunes-Sibelius-demos.zip
2024-03-18 22:09   101198k
98kb download.
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/

Message received from Dave regarding Saxophone Workshop.
Just wanted to announce that we have got a date for the next StaxofSax Saxophone Workshop. June 16th 2024.
We have a new venue this year, which has plenty of parking (always important.)The Broadway Centre in Sandown, Isle of Wight.
Its open to anyone aged 13 and above, with a minimum of 12 months experience.
We will cover small and large ensemble work, Technique and tone, and a lot of other important saxophone related learning.
We have been able to keep the cost the same as last year, £30 per person.
The timings and venue are on the flyer below. I know a lot of you came last year, and we had a great day. It would be lovely if you could make it again, a good chance for people to put a face to a name for this group.
Any questions, or you would like to reserve a space, please get in touch.
Be quick as we are limited to 30 spaces.

Copy Avid Sibelius files to an Ipad 2 using Itunes

Update Itunes to the latest Itunes on your PC.
Install Avid Sibelius Scorch app on your Ipad from the App Store.
Create a folder on your computer to hold all your *.sib files.
Connect your ipad to your computer with Usb lightning cable.
Itunes should launch. Sign in to your apple account.
Click on your device icon near the top left hand side of Itunes.
On the left hand Settings Panel
Click on File Sharing. The Avid Scorch Icon will be displayed
In the right hand File Sharing panel.
(If you don?t see the Avid Scorch icon. You may be using an
 old version of Itunes.)

 
Click on the Avid Scorch Icon.
 
If you wish do delete all of the files in the
Avid Scorch Documents.
Click on one of *.sib file.
Click on the EDIT tab SELECT ALL.
Navigate back to the *.sib files the press DELETE.

To copy all the new *.sib files drag the files over to
Avid Scorch Documents.
On your pc ORGANISE, SELECT ALL.
Drag the files over to Avid Scorch Documents.
Press SYNC on the button at the bottom of Itunes.
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Please note: Avid Scorch has been discontinued, but Sibelius for mobile is now available, enabling you to write and edit music anywhere.
 Existing users will continue to be able to access the app, and reinstall it if needed, however, new users will not be able to purchase it from the App Store.
https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/faq/en391291
Sibelius Scorch for Windows & Mac
https://connect.avid.com/scorchdownload.html

Youtube introduction to Sibelius for mobile
https://youtu.be/OgYAjjbqrq0

To test the clarinet fingering
Select clarinetBb.ttf   and INSTALL
In Microsoft office type
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  I  j  k  l m n
Change the font to clarinetBb font
The fingering diagrams will display E3 to G6. Once the fonts are working ok open Sibelius.  Sibelius needs FILE, PREFERENCES, FONT EQUIVALENTS, clarinetBb installing. Close Sibelius then restart Sibelius.
Select score then open PLUG_INNS, Clarinet-Fingering


In Sibelius clarinetBb plugin Map Font to Pitches
LOWEST WRITTEN PITCH  [ E ]  [ 3 ]
Enter A to n in the boxes.
E3=A, F3=B, F#/Gb3=C, G3=D, G#/Ab3=E,
Then continue adding the remaining. FGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmn
G6=n

for more information open the pdf help file in
http://www.learnsax.co.uk/talk/

http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Clarinet%20fingering%20for%20Avid%20Sibelius%20and%20install%20instructions.pdf

Regards Tony

I have over 500 popular songs arranged for tenor saxophone that are easy to play with note heads so you don?t have to learn to read music.
If you have an Apple Ipad.  Sibelius Scorch Plugin costs Just ?1.99 from Apple appstore
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/avid-scorch/id436394592?mt=8

For more information visit the developers website

https://www.avid.com/products/avid-scorch

The player is amazing you play along with score at any speed you can transpose to a different key and mute the backing tracks.
The standalone Avid Sibelius is very expensive but the Plugin uses part of the Sibelius engine. So the audio quality is superb and a bargain plugin at ?1.99
You only have to get a friend or bandmaster that has Avid Sibelius and convert a midi file to a *.sib

I can send you some samples if you wish in PDF or *.sib.

There is another scorch program for a PC but is quite different although free
It is very basic and fussy about browsers.


Adding Sibelius Files to Avid Scorch on iPad
https://www.youtube.com/v/SEqTJASKR6U


Arts Centre Melbourne's iPad Choir presents a new way to participate in Choral Singing.
Singers are sourced from community choir across Victoria,
and digital sheet music scores delivered to participant's iPads via the Avid Scorch app


https://www.youtube.com/v/ORMibtGOrB4

                    STAXOFSAX
     Friday 29th December 2017 Leicester

? Explore a fun and rewarding day of making music.
? Experience the adrenalin of playing both in a large
and small Ensemble and group improvisation.
?
Your instructors - Dave, an experienced musician
and Teacher andleading the improvisation session is
Nick, a Jazz musician and Educator.
? The day runs from 10.00 am until 3.00 pm.
? Open to existing Ensembles and individuals aged
11 years and above with a minimum of a year?s
playing experience.
? ?30.00 per person.
? Free parking and Tea and Coffee Provided
? Venue:
Leicester South Salvation Army Hall, Ladysmith
Road, South Wigston, Leics, LE18 4UZ.
? Contact Dave for more information:
Mobile 07736471861, Email staxofsax@
gmail.com or Facebook ? Staxofsax
saxophone workshops

Have some rooting tooting fun with your Sax.

STAXOFSAX
will be running an afternoon ensemble session for those that prefer not to improvise, this was a great success at Easter.

Checkout ?staxofsax dave plummer? on YouTube

Add Saxophone Fingering Diagrams automatically to Avid Sibelius.  Using a free Saxophone Font.
For downloading the files copy and paste the download link into your browser.
To see a list of  all downloads      http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/
The free Saxophone.ttf font download.    http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Saxophone.ttf
 

Open the pdf instructions guide.
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Saxophone-fingering-for-Avid-Sibelius.pdf
Download the instructions guide in Microsoft Word .doc
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Saxophone-fingering-for-Avid-Sibelius.doc
Download the Plugin Saxophone-Fingering.zip
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Saxophone-Fingering.zip

Saxophone fingering for Avid Sibelius

Using Sibelius Plugin Tin Whistle Fingering written by Bob Zawalich can add Saxophone fingering diagrams to Avid Sibelius automatically
(Tin Whistle Fingering Copyright Bob Zawalich. All rights reserved.)

Using the new version of program Version 01.16.00 allows mapping of four octaves.

Without any modifications to the program file TinWhistleFingering.plg can produce fingering diagrams for the Saxophone.
Using a new Saxophone.ttf font file

This font and information can be downloaded free of charge for both
personal and commercial use similar to the Creative Commons Licence.
Distribution for a fee is not allowed.
Download the zip file from
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Saxophone-Fingering.zip

From Tony Edge  http://learnsax.co.uk
Forum  http://learnsax.co.uk/talk


Installation with Windows 7 32 bit with Sibelius 7.5

Install the tinwhistle plugin from Sibelius 7.5
Copy the        Saxophone.ttf  to
C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Avid\Sibelius 7.5\Plugins
Select the category where your Tin Whistle Fingering program is to be installed.
Click on the new true type font Saxophone.ttf  and install.
Follow the instructions in (Part B)



Installation.  with Windows 7 32bit .    Sibelius 6.
Unzip the Saxophone-Fingering.zip  file.
To create a new plugin folder Saxophone-Fingering
Click on the new true type font Saxophone.ttf  and install.
The new font will work with Windows applications.

In Windows 7 32 bit.
Copy the new Saxophone-Fingering folder to your plugins folder
Depending on your installation a typical installation would be
(Windows 7 32bit Sibelius 6)
C:\Program Files\Sibelius Software\Sibelius 6\Plugins\Saxophone-Fingering


Sibelius needs to locate the new font.

(Part B)
  Open Avid Sibelius
In FILE, PREFERENCES, FONT EQIVALENTS.
In the right hand panel add Saxophone.ttf 
ADD SUBSTITUTE
Then in the left hand panel add Saxophone.ttf 
Then click on OK. Close down Sibelius and then restart to take effect.

Highlight your Saxophone staff  CTRL ALT A.
Click on Saxophone-Fingering and map font to pitches using the new font file Saxophone
Map the lowest pitch Bb3
Enter the new map A to h

 

 


 







Adding the new fingering diagrams.
Select the Saxophone Staff with the shortcut CTRL ALT A
The whole staff is now highlighted if you see some notes in green they are in a different voice they will not produce the new font diagram.
A plugin will fix this problem  Merge to voice 1 (Siblelius 7.5 located in Notes & Rests) The plugin requires Sibelius 6.2 or above.


Contents of the font Saxophone the Alphabet typed in Microsoft Office using font Saxophone produce the following Saxophone fingering characters. The font size can be adjusted.

 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefgh
 abcdefgh


 
To produce your own fonts and add your own alternative fingering and Altissimo diagrams.
One solution is to use a free online Fingering Diagram Builder by Bret Pimentel, woodwinds
The link
https://fingering.bretpimentel.com/#!/Saxophone
The output file is.png (Portable Network Graphic) and is a bit map file.

Font files use vector graphics. Fortunately FontCreator Professional 6 by high-logic.com can import bitmap files including .png files created with Fingering Diagram Builder.
Copying files to Sibelius Program files may be stopped due to permission protection.
A free program TakeOwnership makes the changes in seconds.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zo6s07u5xby05ld/TakeOwnership.zip#!




Tin Whistle Fingering
Copyright Bob Zawalich 2008. All rights reserved.
Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.


Version 01.16.00
Added 19 Oct 2010 (last updated 24 Jul 2015)
For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5 and Sibelius 8.x
Tin Whistle Fingering adds fingering diagrams, which are characters in a special font mapped to specific pitches, under each selected note.
The font Tin Whistle Tab was designed and donated by Blayne Chastain for this plugin, and can be freely distributed.
The zip file contains the plugin, the font, and 2 PDF documents describing the plugin and the font.
Updated 29 October 2010. Now skip notes that are tied to and adds an option to use a fingering only the first time a note appears in the selection.
Updated 23 April 2015. Added more pitch range (4 octaves) and a button to reset the D whistle setting if used for another instrument.
Updated 30 April 2015 to add in a missing default preference value to restore.
Updated 24 July 2015 to add another PDF file explaining how to use the plugin with different fonts
?   Download TinWhistleFingering.zip   from Avid Sibelius


 Adding fingering to notes with the Tin Whistle Fingering plugin in Sibelius
Bob Zawalich July 23, 2015
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tin Whistle Tab font is free of charge for both personal and commercial use. Distribution for a fee is not allowed. Please credit Blayne Chastain in any publication in which this font appears with the
following copyright notice: "Tin Whistle Tab font ? Blayne Chastain / www.blaynechastain.com"
Copyright ? 2010 Blayne Chastain / www.blaynechastain.com

Clarinet fingering for Avid Sibelius

Using Sibelius Plugin Tin Whistle Fingering written by Bob Zawalich
Tin Whistle Fingering
Copyright Bob Zawalich. All rights reserved.

The clarinet (E3 to F6) has a wider range of notes  than the Tin Whistle.
Using the new version of TinWhistle plugin  Version 01.16.00 written by Bob Zawalich allows mapping of four octaves.

Without any modifications to the program file TinWhistleFingering.plg can produce fingering diagrams for the Bb Clarinet.
Using a new clarinetBb.ttf font file
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/clarinetBb.ttf

The free Saxophone.ttf font download can be downloaded from http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Saxophone.ttf


This font and and information can be downloaded free of charge for both
personal and commercial use similar to the Creative Commons Licence. Distribution for a fee is not allowed.
Download the zip file from
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Clarinet-Fingering.zip
Open the full pdf instructions
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Clarinet%20fingering%20for%20Avid%20Sibelius%20and%20install%20instructions.pdf
Download the full instructions as .doc
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Clarinet%20fingering%20for%20Avid%20Sibelius%20and%20install%20instructions.doc

From Tony Edge  http://learnsax.co.uk
Forum  http://learnsax.co.uk/talk


Installation with Windows 7 32 bit with Sibelius 7.5
Install the tinwhistle plugin from Sibelius 7.5
Copy the        clarinetBb.ttf to
C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Avid\Sibelius 7.5\Plugins
Select the category where your Tin Whistle Fingering program is installed.
Click on the new true type font clarinetBb.ttf  and install.
Follow the instructions in (PartA)



Installation.  with Windows 7 32bit .    Sibelius 6.
Unzip the Clarinet-Fingering.zip  file.
To create a new plugin folder Clarinet-Fingering
The contents contain the following files and a folder of  the source PNG-Glyphs
        Adding fingering to notes with the Tin Whistle Fingering plugin in Sibelius.pdf
        Clarinet fingering for Avid Sibelius and install instructions.doc
        Clarinet fingering for Avid Sibelius and install instructions.pdf
        clarinetBb.ttf
        folder PNG-Glyphs
        TinWhistleFingering.plg
        TinWhistleTab.pdf
        TinWhistleTab.ttf
        Using the Tin Whistle Fingering Plugin.pdf

Click on the new true type font clarinetBb.ttf  and install.
The new font will work with Windows applications.

In Windows 7 32 bit.
Copy the new Clarinet-Fingering folder to your plugins folder
Depending on your installation a typical installation would be
(Windows 7 32bit Sibelius 6)
C:\Program Files\Sibelius Software\Sibelius 6\Plugins\Clarinet-Fingering


Sibelius needs to locate the new font.

(PartA)  Open Avid Sibelius
In FILE, PREFERENCES, FONT EQIVALENTS.
In the right hand panel add clarinetBb
ADD SUBSTITUTE
Then in the left hand panel add clarinetBb
Then click on OK. Close down Sibelius and then restart to take effect.

Highlight your clarinet staff  CTRL ALT A.
Click on Clarinet-Fingering and map font to pitches using the new font file clarinetBb
Map the lowest pitch E3
Enter the new map A to l  (lower case L)









Adding the new fingering diagrams.
Select the Clarinet Staff with the shortcut CTRL ALT A
The whole staff is now highlighted if you see some notes in green they are in a different voice they will not produce the new font diagram.
A plugin will fix this problem  Merge to voice 1 (Siblelius 7.5 located in Notes & Rests) The plugin requires Sibelius 6.2 and above.


Contents of the font clarinetBb the Alphabet typed in Microsoft Office using font clarinetBb produce the clarinet fingering characters. The font size can be adjusted. (See the pdf documentation).

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  I  j  k  l



A demonstration of the display on YouTube "Stranger on the Shore. By Aker Bilk" with notation and Clarinet finger position's (D4 should not include the
octave/ Speaker-Register key as in the youtube video, The latest clarinetBb corrects this error). Try the Youtube Sibelius-Demo.sib
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/Sibelius Demo Scores/Sibelius-Demo.sib


https://
                           


To produce your own fonts, one solution is to use a free online
Fingering Diagram Builder
by Bret Pimentel, woodwinds
link
https://fingering.bretpimentel.com/#!/clarinet
The output file is.png (Portable Network Graphic) and is a bit map file.

Font files use vector graphics. Fortunately FontCreator Professional 6 by high-logic.com can import bitmap files including .png files created with Fingering Diagram Builder.
Copying files to Sibelius Program files may be stopped due to permission protection.
A free program TakeOwnership makes the changes in seconds.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zo6s07u5xby05ld/TakeOwnership.zip#!




Tin Whistle Fingering
Copyright Bob Zawalich 2008. All rights reserved.
Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.


Version 01.16.00
Added 19 Oct 2010 (last updated 24 Jul 2015)
For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5 and Sibelius 8.x
Tin Whistle Fingering adds fingering diagrams, which are characters in a special font mapped to specific pitches, under each selected note.
The font Tin Whistle Tab was designed and donated by Blayne Chastain for this plugin, and can be freely distributed.
The zip file contains the plugin, the font, and 2 PDF documents describing the plugin and the font.
Updated 29 October 2010. Now skip notes that are tied to and adds an option to use a fingering only the first time a note appears in the selection.
Updated 23 April 2015. Added more pitch range (4 octaves) and a button to reset the D whistle setting if used for another instrument.
Updated 30 April 2015 to add in a missing default preference value to restore.
Updated 24 July 2015 to add another PDF file explaining how to use the plugin with different fonts
? Download TinWhistleFingering.zip  from Avid Sibelius


Adding fingering to notes with the Tin Whistle Fingering plugin in Sibelius
Bob Zawalich July 23, 2015
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tin Whistle Tab font is free of charge for both personal and commercial use. Distribution for a fee is not allowed. Please credit Blayne Chastain in any publication in which this font appears with the
following copyright notice: "Tin Whistle Tab font ? Blayne Chastain / www.blaynechastain.com"
Copyright ? 2010 Blayne Chastain / www.blaynechastain.com

Impro-Visor (short for ?Improvisation Advisor?) is a free music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

Over the years the program has evolved and many new features have been added to the program.
Professor Bob Keller explains with a tutorial on YouTube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfk8vR2vsb4

https://www.youtube.com/v/Xfk8vR2vsb4


Free Open-Source Software from
Harvey Mudd College
Computer Science Department
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor

Jazz FM  is returning for five days from November 10th 2016.
on DAB and digital radio.

Fantastic news Jazz on Dab radio available for listeners outside the JAZZ FM London area.

Jonathan Arendt, CEO Jazz FM, says: ?It?s a privilege to be working with BBC Music and Radio 3 again following our groundbreaking collaboration in 2015 with the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Live concerts will air from EFG London Jazz Festival in partnership with BBC Radio 3 along with Jazz FM?s archive recordings, and specially commissioned new content for the first time this year.

http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/09/jazz-fm-and-bbc-pop-up-jazz-station-returns

Today I had a question from one of my music pals Peter.
Please can you help I needed to backup my Windows 7 music files on drive D:  to my new and freshly formatted Sata 500GB disc drive E:   I used Windows 7 copy and paste the copy has been running for 12 hours and is no where complete. Finally I aborted the copy.
Windows copy performance was about 30mb per second.
Can I do something to increase the copy speed
                                ROBOCOPY

Hi Peter yes we can speed this up almost 100 times faster.
Microsoft have a command line tool called robocopy
Copy all of D: disk drive to E: drive and maintain dates created

Type in the following command line in a dos command prompt. To save time just copy and paste the following

robocopy D:\  E:\ /MIR /R:0 /W:0  /XD  "$RECYCLE.BIN" "System Volume Information" "RECYCLER"  /COPY:DT /DCOPY:T

(the dos command is available in All Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt.)




An alternative program is RichCopy This simple tool was written by a Microsoft team named Derk Benisch and RICHCOPY Version 4.0 Developed by Ken [Kenzaburo] Tamaru

HoffmanUtilitySpotlight

Tech Net Magazine wrote a very good article
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx
Utility Spotlight
RichCopy
Joshua Hoffman

The direct Download.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/0/fd05def7-68a1-4f71-8546-25c359cc0842/HoffmanUtilitySpotlight2009_04.exe
HoffmanUtilitySpotlight2009_04.exe (5,896 KB)

This simple graphical interface is simple to use and need no explanation.

I sometimes use Windiff.exe to compare the two disks but needs to be run in compatibily mode for Windows 7.


https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/159214

Good luck

Many thanks to my good friend William Johnson Music Composer to Setup Yamaha PSR 740 keyboard ready for a try at improvisation.

Why a midi keyboard on a saxophone web site you may ask.
I started playing saxophone at over the age of over 60 without any music training and unable to read music.
Both friends and musicians have commented on my progress. You sound really good.
I put this down to playing along with a Yamaha Psr keyboard with an XG Midi sound set and arranging the midi file for Saxophone.
Composing and playing along with Sibelius 6 Software is great fun.
Adding note heads helps with reading. My faithful Yamaha PSR 520 is great for playing from the computer
the only problem visiting friends have difficulty with styles and saving to external media.
My new S/H Yamaha Psr740 Bought for ?160 solves this problem.
Please visit learnsax youtube channel again and of course William Johnson music composer on YouTube.

PSR740 Yamaha PSR 740

https://www.youtube.com/v/t39KiRJlBp4

Listen to Criccieth in Bloom on YouTube by William Johnson Music Composer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL2THjLup8U

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZL2THjLup8U

Forte creates an ideal environment for making music
Products
FORTE Premium
FORTE Home
FORTE Basic
FORTE Free (Freeware)
Forte MidiToAudio
Forte Scan Light

http://www.fortenotation.com/en/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8xiPUUM-Yg

https://www.youtube.com/v/e8xiPUUM-Yg

BBC Music Jazz on DAB radio

The service will be on air from 12 ? 15 November 2015 with presenters from across BBC Radio as well as celebrity jazz fans and a collaboration with Jazz FM.
BBC Music Jazz is available online in the UK and internationally. It will be available as an ?on demand? service for up to 30 days after broadcast.
On your Dab Radio Scroll through the station list and you should find BBC Music Jazz after BBC Asian Network.
For more information follow the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/NK0RzQnT5r0KLb4D45Vwvl/how-to-listen-to-bbc-music-jazz

Cadwaladers was initially established in 1927 by the Cadwalader family in Criccieth.
Sadly Cadwaladers, the Welsh coffee and ice cream chain went into administration Diane Brierley and Mark Andrews bought out the firm.
Pwllheli and Abersoch shops - will close as part of the re-structure.

In my opinion Cadwalders ice cream palour  Criccieth  has lost its warmth friendly atmosphere and no music evenings. But do wish them luck with the new venture and do hope they will bring back the Jazz evening.

Many thanks to my good friend William Johnson Music Composer to set up my keyboard ready for a try at improvisation.
https://www.youtube.com/v/t39KiRJlBp4&list=UUazDaDehxiDfWGY2zAtskVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t39KiRJlBp4&list=UUazDaDehxiDfWGY2zAtskVg

https://www.youtube.com/v/YDrSPOHTd_c&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA
link for youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDrSPOHTd_c&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA

Why a midi keyboard on a saxophone web site you may ask.

I started playing saxophone at over the age of over 60 without any music training and unable to read music.
Both friends and musicians have commented on my progress. You sound really good.
I put this down to arranging the midi file in Sibelius 6 to for Saxophone and playing along with a Yamaha Psr keyboard.

Composing and playing along with Sibelius 6 Software is great fun.

Adding note heads helps with reading. My faithful Yamaha PSR 520 only has one problem visiting friends, pianist, keyboard players have difficulty with styles and saving to computer. The Yamaha Psr740 solves this problem and in my budget of less than ?160 second hand.

I have removed the floppy disk drive and installed a ?15 Gotek usb device, it works well.
998 diskettes that can be stored on a standard 2gb memory stick using 998 virtual partitions.
Partition 0 can be read on any computer without additional software The Gotek software is in Chinese works with XP
But is quite a struggle to work with windows 7. My solution was to buy another Gotek floppy on Ebay cheapest ?10 and
install the extra floppy emulator in my Windows 7 Desktop.  Backing up the usb memory stick with 998 partitions was easy
with a program called Image USB By Passmark Software.

Please visit learnsax youtube channel again and of course William Johnson music composer on YouTube.
1 hour later after filming in the Goyt Valley William composes a new melody
https://www.youtube.com/v/OMfvmff86Js&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA
Follow the link for YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMfvmff86Js&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA

Thanks for watching
Tony

http://www.youtube.com/v/YDrSPOHTd_c
to play the video on Youtube click on the link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDrSPOHTd_c&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA





Great afternoon with William JOHNSON a Music Composer Music Video No.275 uploaded  Friday 1st August 2014 .
Thank you for demonstrating my new Yamaha PSR740
Bought on eBay for ?155. I play saxophone the keyboard is all new to me and am most grateful for your time. Well done love the music.
Nice to be able to save the complete score and pull in the music to Sibelius 6 and arrange parts to my own musical ablity on tenor sax.

The video.
The recording was made with a Toshiba Camileo Z100. Never used this camera before perhaps we should have connected the audio interface direct into the headphone socket on the Yamaha. The audio from the camera internal mike does not capture the music well. Just a small matter wonder if I could have slowed the zooming down also adjusted depth of field to reduce background.
Thanks again learnt a lot.
I have to admire people like William JOHNSON a Music Composer that can just sit down at a keyboard and compose a new melody.
Tony

A Fabulous event for the best free audio tool in the world today.


Audacity Unconference 2014 (AU14)
The Audacity Unconference 2014 (AU14) is an event for all Audacity users including teachers, musicians, and researchers.

It will run from Friday 11th to Saturday 12th July 2014 and you can book either day or both.

It is hosted by UCLan (University of Central Lancashire) in Preston, England.

Developers and support people will be there and so you will have an opportunity to talk to them as well as other users. We?d love to see you there!

Please see Audacity_Unconference_2014 for more details.
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Unconference_2014
They may run sessions on:
Audacity for noobs, first lessons
The use of Audacity in Audio - Visual sequences
Radio Journalism and Audacity
Mixing
Teaching/composing with children in school with Audacity
How we used it in our library
Nyquist and what it has to offer
HCI of Audacity in comparison to other Audio Software
Music
They want to attend sessions on:
(these have been grouped and ordered a little)
Basic User How To / Audacity for noobs, first lessons.
Interested in learning about basic sound cleanup/treatment for podcast/video soundtrack
Learn techniques, procedures, effects, equipment recommendations and why's
Sessions to create better podcasts and music from scratch
Audacity/podcasts for Post-Beginners: avoiding screw-ups, making-do (budgetwise), and any clever tricks that aren't too hard!
Getting to learn how the program works, how it has been working for others indifferent settings, whether there is any other like software for deaf people too
Using audacity in self-recording
Tips and features
Ways to use effects
Creating children's music
Benefits/uses of different file extensions
Best practices Professional workshops
Audacity workshop Advanced Audacity user plug-ins
Learning from professionals, stuff about plugins, talks on sound + music

Audacity for sixth form sound investigations - using it to calculate frequecy, wavelengths etc.
Using audacity to help to teach sound and waves in school
Uses of audacity in science experiments
Tutorials and workshops on how to introduce students 16-18 to audacity
Education - composing in elementary & secondary school. Developing teaching material.
Using audacity in higher education and libraries.
Learning how to use audacity and using the application in school linked to the EYFS and new curriculum

I want to make music
Meet other acoustic musicians and/or singer-songwriters
Listening to other's music / Listening to cool stuff done on Audacity
Voice Acting/Actors on YouTube panel
Demonstrating how Audacity helps me as an experimental musician
A band and a bar.
Possibly cookout/BBQ/Stove Geek session

Resume of the last improvements - New possible functions - New mobile compatibility - Future of Audacity
What is in mind development wise / Discussing improvements that could be made to Audacity
Discussion on improving the software
Listening to any technical, how to or similar talks
Interest in discussion about technical resources and content delivery ideas
Workshops (code and research), hack sessions
Latency problems, VST-Plug-ins

Plugins
Nyquist programming
Quote from wikipedia:
Nyquist is a programming language for sound synthesis and analysis based on the Lisp programming language. It is an extension of the XLISP dialect of Lisp.
With Nyquist, the programmer designs musical instruments by combining functions, and can call upon these instruments and generate a sound just by typing a simple expression. The programmer can combine simple expressions into complex ones to create a whole composition, and can also generate various other kinds of musical and non-musical sounds.
The Nyquist interpreter can read and write sound files, MIDI files, and Adagio text-based music score files. On many platforms, it can also produce direct audio output in real time.
The Nyquist programming language can also be used to write plug-in effects for the Audacity digital audio editor.
One notable difference between Nyquist and more traditional MUSIC-N languages is that Nyquist does not segregate synthesis functions (see unit generator) from "scoring" functions. For example Csound is actually two languages, one for creating "orchestras" the other for writing "scores". With Nyquist these two domains are combined.
Nyquist runs under Linux and other Unix environments, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows.
The Nyquist programming language and interpreter were written by Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University, with support from Yamaha Corporation and IBM.


http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Unconference_2014

Replacing the Rotary Encoder on a Proteus 2000
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/replace-encoder.pdf
Switch, Encoder 16MM 24 Detents Vertical mount.
Bourns PEC164215FN0024 encoder for replacement.
I used a BI TECHNOLOGIES/TT ELECTRONICS, EN16-H20AF15, INCREMENTAL ENCODER purchased on EBay UK. ?4.75
INCREMENTAL ENCODER
Pin vertical/down facing
Not pc horizontal rear facing
?  Encoder Resolution:24CPR
?  Encoder Type: Incremental
?  Leaded Process Compatible:Yes
?  No. of Detents:0
?  Series:EN16

Locate the encoder pcb remove screws mark the ribbon cable with felt tip at pin 1.
Remove the pcb.
Use a solder sucker to remove the old encoder the following picture shows the encoder broken apart.
The middle spring is the detent.
The new encoder ready for soldering

After replacing the encoder refit the PCB
Making sure all the cables are correctly
Located.

open the user pdf help page
http://learnsax.co.uk/docs/replace-encoder.pdf

Sound sim cards are available but at very high cost they could cost over ?100
On ebay I purchased 9 blank simms for ?10
My proposal is to build read/write modules for less than ?10.

My ideas so far. Download the file in office 2003 doc format.
learnsax.co.uk.docs/make-simms.doc

Download the file as a .pdf

learnsax.co.uk.docs/make-simms.pdf

Ideas to use emu blank simms PC10498 Rev A 32mb Sound Rom W/2Mb Flash
purchased on ebay nine for ?10 for Proteus 2000

U5 is a LH28F-160S5T-L10A
low-cost, nonvolatile, read/write storage. 100,000 Block Erase Cycles
Configurable x8 or x16 I/O

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U6 is a 74ACT138 3 TO 8 LINE DECODER
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Various options could be used to program the flash memory.

EZoFlash. Parallel memory programmer.
                                      http://www.ezoflash.com/adapters.htm
Programmer EZoFlash support :
?   8bit , 8/16bit and 16 bit flash memory in TSOP, PSOP, DIP and PLCC packages,
?   EPROM, E(E)PROM and E2PROM parallel memory, FWH/LPC and AT89C51 family,
?   +3.3V and +5.0V Vcc devices,
?   address range to 64Mbit (..A22),
?   +12V driver for programming and temporary sector unprotection,
?   adapters with standard sockets for DIP and PLCC devices,
?   adapters with memory chip soldering or surface mount identical footprint sockets (Meritec, Yamaichi) for TSOP , PSOP and SSOP devices,
?   software commands - get ID, read, verify, erase, blank check and program.
?   Latest version EZoFlash4v5 support serial EEPROM (I2C, Microwire, SPI), SPI Flash, Microchip PIC, Atmel AVR-8bit MCU (ATmega, ATtiny, AT90)


Just one solution to read/write EMU U5. Make a ribbon cable header to a 72pin simm socket
Use Ezoflash free software
Download the Schematic   Part list   PCB   Component layout   Download package
From http://www.ezoflash.com/ezoflash.htm

Option 2  http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi

The Raspberry Pie should be fairly easy to program i/o
But would need a simple interface to the EMU simm skt

And a patch cable.  Memory addressing could use a cmos16 bit up down counter I/C and a bi/direction data buffer I/C and control lines.

SSOP 56 sockets are available but very expensive you could even burn/prog chips prior to soldering.

So far this is just at the ideas stage and the topic is open to develop a low cost read/write sound rom.

Cost so far blank C10498 sim bought on ebay aprox ?1 each
U5    LH28F-160S5T-L10A  ?4 each (Used on Sisco router)
U6    74ACT138 ?1
Ezoflash programmer no cost parts can be salvaged from scrap computer boards
May need to buy film and photo pcb and etch ?5.


Tony Edge