Antescofo Support

Support for IRCAM's antescofo score-following software has been added to NoteAbilityPro. Antescofo is an anticipatory score-following system developed by Arshia Cont which can be interfaced to NoteAbilityPro. Score position messages are received from antescofo as part of the Integrated Interactive Music Performance Environment (IIMPE) and can be used to synchronize a live performance with a NoteAbilityPro score during playback. In order to use antescofo and NoteAbilityPro the following steps should be followed:

The NoteAbilityPro score containing an instrumental part (usually in the first staff) should be saved as an antescofo score. This is done by selecting the Save To... menu item from the File menu and selecting Antescofo as the file type. This file contains an ASCII representation of all the music events in the top staff along with basic tempo information.
The saved antescofo file must be opened by the antescofo object in a MaxMSP patch (available from the author)
The Network Port panel must be set to receive TCP Network messages on the port specified in the MaxMSP patch (usually port 3002).
The appropriate settings for receiving score-following messsages (latency and score-following method) should be selected in the Network Port panel.
Click the play button on the score window and wait for messages from antescofo (through MaxMSP).

The Antescofo Panel

The Antescofo Editor is a panel that allows you to customize the antescofo data associated with individual notes and rests in the score. To make the panel visible, select the Antescofo Editor... item in the Tools menu.

To load the next selected note or rest into the editor, click on the Load Next Image button. The text which appears in the editor is the antescofo data for that image. This normally consists of a midicents value (Midi Pitch X 100), a duration and a label associated with the event. You may modify these values, or add additional antescofo information. The Save Data button will save the updated data with the note or rest. The Clear Data button clears the text field so you can enter a new antescofo message. Altering the antescofo data should only be done with a clear understanding of the data format required of the antescofo editor. For more information on the antescofo data format, contact the author.