Tinkerer - Print

Use Tinkerer to print midi files as sheet music

I'm not a big fan of standard sheet music format...:(
   Those lines and spaces and sharps and flats and key signatures
   require TOO much interpretation for a novice at piano like me.
   And don't get me started on ledger lines !!
   (ok, ok.  I learned em.  But I still don't LIKE em.)

I just wanna see where to put my fingers.  WHY must I count ledger lines??

If it were up to me,
   all standard sheet music would come to me in the form of a midi file.
 - it's easier to pick out the notes and find a good fingering.
 - I don't have to learn a WHOLE song to preview if it sounds good enough to be
   worth learning.

I guess some sequencers can scan standard sheet music and turn it into a midi
file.  But, well, they ain't perfect and I don't want to buy em.

If I only have sheet music (no midi file),
   I MIGHT use Txt2Mid
      to turn it into a text file and into a midi file.
   This can be a bother, especially for looong songs.

But it's pretty rare to NOT find a midi files for modern sheet music.
(That's what the sheet music is usually created FROM in the first place.)
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Fingering:

   Tinkerer let's you enter fingering next to the notes.
   1..5 for right hand are thumb, index, middle, ring and pinky.
   5..1 for left hand are the same (5=pinky .. 1=thumb)

   When you have one track displayed,
      Click the bottom area so the => becomes green
      Then while hovering over the middle of a note,
         use the mouse scroll wheel to put in fingering numbers by a note.

         You can also enter "transfer" fingering.
         Ex:  23 means press note with 2 and move 3 to hold it
              (to slide your right hand left in prep for future notes, etc.)
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Tinkerer can print out your midi file in piano roll format.
   Including fingering numbers - HANDY !!

   

   Printing uses the 2 Zoom controls just like the screen does.
      Try with different magnification.
      I'd advise using zoom of 3 for note and time on your 1st print preview.
         Higher zoom amounts squish things more.
         Lower amounts expand the notes/time.

   You probably want to "color" by track when printing.
      Having left hand in one track and right in another and coloring by
         track helps you see left versus right hand.

   Once printed, you can staple the printouts together into a sort of "scroll".
      Maybe fanfold the right end if it's huge...

   (better resolution on your printer, of course:)
   

   "Columns" of piano roll bars are printed out
      with note position ALIGNED with finger position.
      Not bent 90 degrees like standard sheet music.

      Time goes DOWN the page.

      Only the notes of the "staff" that are actually USED are printed.

      As many "columns" as possible will be put on a page.

      At the top of each "column"
      - on the left side is the leftmost note your left pinky will need to play.
        This tells you which notes you're looking at.
        Remember, keys are colored according to piano key.
        Cs are a little whiter.  Middle C (if displayed) is whitest.

      - On the right side at top of column,
        is the 1st bar number of that "column".


   Imagine your 2 hands going straight down the left hand page column then
      starting again at the top of the next column to the right.

      (thin rainbow-y lines seperate the columns.)

   I use the printouts for piano practice.
   It works pretty good for me.  You got ideas?  Click blue feedback thingy=>
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Next up, the repeating bars report..