MNX Following on from our last meeting discussing ways of defining fully-qualified positions for items in bars, Adrian has created issue #314 and we welcome community feedback on how we might approach this. Since Myke was back this week, we … Continue reading →

Myke was unfortunately unable to join today’s meeting due to illness. MNX The pull request for moving clefs into their own key in the measure object (#312) has been merged, but in the process of working on this it became … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has updated the MNX converter to output the new JSON format (GitHub commit). There are a few remaining details that need to be resolved (clefs, repeat endings, and tuplets) but these will be taken care of in due … Continue reading →

MNX We had some excellent bug reports on the MNX example documents from community member Paul Overell in issue #306, and Adrian has worked through them to fix them all. Thanks to Paul for this very detailed look at the … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has committed the changes for note value quantity for tuplets to be a structured object instead of using the duration microsyntax, and the changes for note pitch to use a structured object containing the step, octave and optional … Continue reading →

MusicXML Having proposed it some six months ago, there has been no dissention to the idea of deprecating score-timewise, so the co-chairs have decided to officially deprecate this time model in MusicXML 4.1 and plan to remove it altogether in … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has updated the specification and examples for time signatures following the recent discussions about how to replace the originally specified microsyntax. The main topic of discussion in today’s meeting was the replacement of the note value microsyntax. After … Continue reading →

MNX We spent the meeting discussing the microsyntax for time signatures, which needs replacing following the decision to avoid these as far as possible (see discussion #293). Although there was much lively discussion about the complexities of representing irrational meters, … Continue reading →

MNX Pull request #302 has been merged, which updates the introductory page of the MNX Specification to provide some additional context about the reasons why MNX exists. We hope this expanded introduction will help newcomers to MNX understand both the … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian encourages the community to weigh in on the issues arising from the transition from XML to JSON, as it would be helpful to get any further feedback from the community: Adrian would like to proceed to pull requests … Continue reading →