MusiCAD version 0.0 is complete.

It's almost too much to fathom for me, but after many years of programming trials and tribulations the first publicly usable version of my music program is finished ten hours ahead of my 1 month old self-imposed deadline of December 1st (10 hours ahead after 7 years of programming, lol)!

I will be testing and documenting in December in anticipation of the January 1st open-source release so there is much more work to be done, but, wow! I can't believe it's come this far and is as excellent as it is. It has already exceeded what I thought was possible all those years ago when the idea first germinated and it is much faster than I ever thought it could be. I'm already "walking" around virtually in my latest scores and it's still only scratching the surface of what will be possible down the road. Amazing!


Let's hear it for perseverance and faithfullness.
And let's hear it for God, the creator of creators.

Andy F.

Anticipation.

Anticipation is a musical term but the more common non-musical definition is what I'm experiencing at the moment. As each day brings us closer to the January 1st release of MusiCAD, I'm finding it harder and harder to sleep. It looks beautiful, sounds beautiful and is beautifully easy to use. If anybody knows of a way to make it smell beautiful, too, let me know, heh.

Here's a quick pic I took of MusiCAD in action yesterday...

Youtube video generating some interest.

Check this guy out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhhbOw_qdK4

He saw my video on youtube.com and sent a message. He's got a bunch of stuff posted and has been working on it for a long time (since the 70's it looks like). Cool stuff!

I've also reconnected with Dave Keenan this past week. Dave and I connected in an online microtonal forum and worked on a musical 3d spreadsheet years ago called the Tumbling Dekany. He's doing some cool stuff now, too. Google "keenan choob" to see the tubular guitar he makes and check out his Sagittal notation idea.

I'm still head to the grind-stone coding for the January 1st realease so you probably won't see much activity until after then. Stay tuned, though. It's worth the wait.

Riches, I Need Not...

...nor man's empty praise.

This week has been a lifttime paradigm shift. God is so good, Hallelujah!!! enough said.