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toddmatherne:
I too have began testing the BPM Notepad application. I'm a guitarist in an active band and I continue to search ways to improve our performance. I stumbled across this forum as I was looking for an application to scroll text. I notice when we have a request that we normally don't do often we stumble through a large book looking for the words. I hate dead space on stage. Aside from that I also periodically play acoustically, duo, sequence, etc.. and becoming more relyant on a laptop as part of my music future. (Culture change here).

So, back to BPM Notepad. I thought I could format words in MS Word and then paste them into the BPM application. I noticed they just kept going back to plain text. So, after testing the XML function using a piece of sheet music in gif format http://www.8notes.com I then formatted a document in BPM and exported to XML. I then wrote a perl script that would simpy read through a text file and convert it to XML with all the attributes. So, if anyone needs a quick fix to convert text files to XML for the BPM application I have a simple but effective script to do this. Now,  I can start copying lyrics in text format, paste in Notepad, and move on. Come back after I'm done, and convert all the text files to XML from the command line.

Here's what I have noticed though, if you right click on an XML file you have the option to open the file in BPM. But BPM opens a blank document.
From a musician's standpoint, Im looking to be able to simply sort a folder by name, choose view->list and click.

But, on a more positive notes, the ability to arrange an entire show, by inserting images, chord diagrams, breaks, etc... into one document is also attractive. Imagine you the musician hosting a wedding party for 3 hours and the entire time, the application is scrolling from the first song, to the money dance, to the bride/groom speech, down to the minute? Maybe, even coordinate before hand with the wedding party and insure to them that everything will go smoothly because you now have an automated wedding coordinator. (Including lyrics, speeches, vows,) lol.

Todd

toddmatherne:
Hey pink, just curious, if you are using Audacity to play your backing tracks? I use audacity for recording ideas, but I'm interested in how you are using the application live.

Thanks,
Todd

Gothi[c]:
is it possible to make a control to make the BPM stay on top of other windows??
-pinkjimiphoton (March 29, 2007, 09:19 AM)
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Good idea, very easy to do for me as well, I'll upload a version with this included soon, maybe tomorrow

Here's what I have noticed though, if you right click on an XML file you have the option to open the file in BPM. But BPM opens a blank document.
From a musician's standpoint, Im looking to be able to simply sort a folder by name, choose view->list and click.

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Well, BPM Notepad doesn't have an installer so it's not messing with any of your windows shell settings, it's not even associating the xml format with BPM Notepad, and that is probably a good thing since .XML is used by lots of other programs too. Maybe in the future we can make an installer that puts BPM Notepad in the "open with" menu when you right-click an .xml file.

I'm not entirely surprised that it's not compatible with MS Word really, i'm afraid there isn't much i can do about that.
Cool that you wrote that perl script :)

pinkjimiphoton:
Hey pink, just curious, if you are using Audacity to play your backing tracks? I use audacity for recording ideas, but I'm interested in how you are using the application live.

Thanks,
Todd
-toddmatherne (March 29, 2007, 09:41 AM)
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hey bro, i don;t use audacity live, i use it strictly for recording...i have it on my laptop to use to RECORD live , but that's about it...tho i may use the BPM gizmo to make my life easier singing unfamiliar stuff!!but live?
hell no, i use a band!
i'm actually looking for a decent small freeware sequencer to use live with my laptop tho that doesn;t screw up everything else on the machine...jsut something i can record/play midi data with.
at this point, audacity can;t support midi at all.
but if i WERE to use audacity ";ive" i;d just run the  output of my soundcard to the PA, and just play along to a pre-recorded rythm section.
could be kinda cool for rooms to small to bring a band into, but not my primary thing,ya know??
peace!

toddmatherne:
Thanks, yes, I'm a member of a four piece band as well. We each invested in the Bose L1/ B1 combination and sold our band trailor and entire PA. We setup in 15-25minutes and can scale down from 2-4 systems depending on room size. The reason I asked about Audacity live was for small acoustic or sequence gigs. Occassionally I like to just venture out and do something solo but we play 10 times a month part time and it's hard to find time to spend working with different products.

Im currently testing this loop stuff (Boss) and very interested in adding some live loops on the fly to back my self up in the band. We are just guitar(me), bass, drums and lead vocals.

Todd

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