1. Music Editing Software
Patrick Mutchler
2006 – 2007
3rd Quarter and Beyond

2. Problem With Current Software
Price
Overcomplexity
Not intended as a learning tool

3. Do We Really Need All This?

4. Purpose Statement
Free
Accessible
Amateur audience
Teaching Aid

5. Scope Graphical input system Graphical output system
Useful compositional aids

6. Development – Staged Delivery
Multiple versions
Allows for quarterly and biquarterly releases
Design time
Reasonable design time
Coding time
Significant coding time

7. Language - Java Graphical interface
Easy to code graphical input and output
High level
Does not require micromanagement
Common use

8. Design and Architecture

9. Analysis Complex Input Human made Untrained user testing
Other students in the class
GUI usability
Teaching aid usefulness

10. Preliminary Results (2.2)
Basic Features
Graphical Input
Graphical Output
Adjustable pitch, accidentals, octave, and note duration
Other Features
Attractive GUI layout
Intelligent barring

11. Version 2.2 Input/Output

12. Future Goals Version 1.x – Graphical Output
More powerful and accurate than ASCII
Version 2.x – GUI Input
Easier to use than file input
Version 3.x – Compositional Aids
Help amateur composers