LeMMA 0.8 alpha release

LeMMA 0.8 is now available as an alpha version. A more ‘contemporary’ look-and-feel has been adopted for this version. I’ve also added various usability improvements (e.g. keyboard navigation using arrow keys), and some attempts at supporting the Mac platform better. A new .ini-like configuration file format is used, using the built-in Python config file parsing [...]

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LeMMA 0.7.1 – now with Linux install script

Minor enhancement: I finally added an install script for Linux users, and support the saving of settings in ~/.lemma, so you can finally install it into /usr or /usr/local. And along with that, a simple Debian package. I use checkinstall to generate it. I can’t seem to specify Python as a pre-requisite using checkinstall, but [...]

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LeMMA 0.7 is out

One year after my last LeMMA release, here’s version 0.7. It’s a little embarrassing actually, because the last version contained some stupid bugs, especially on the Windows platform, and it was out there for one full year. So version 0.7 is largely a bug fix and “bulletproofing” (I added debug mode and codes for error [...]

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White Christmas

It’s been 10 years since I did a guitar arrangement of this song, and it’s been a while since I last recorded anything. So finally here’s the “official” recording done by yours truly, 32Kbps low bitrate version since I want to save bandwidth. This is played on my electric, which I still can’t get the [...]

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chordcalc.py – initial release

I finally wrote that program to generate chord fingerings for any fretted instrument. It’s written in Python and meant to be run at the command-line. It’s quite a pleasure writing this in Python – I was surprised to finish writing the core algorithm in just one morning. Why another chord generation program when there are [...]

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Funny video clip about Canon in D

My brother pointed me to this hilarious Youtube clip of a comedian ranting about everyone’s favorite classical song “Canon in D”. How true, how true! It strikes a resonant chord (oh look, a pun!) in me, coz when I was teaching guitar part-time that’s basically what I told my students – “It’s (almost) all Canon [...]

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Solo mandolin transcriptions

Uploaded my transcriptions of various classical mandolin pieces today, and here they are: Vivaldi’s Concerto in D major RV93 Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto in C major RV425 Vivaldi’s Concerto for two Mandolins in G major RV532 Beethoven’s Sonatina in C major Op44a I hope I got all the notes right. Now all I have to do [...]

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New toys and new code

I haven’t been posting for some time now, what with being busy with work, getting sick (twice!), and searching for a new job (someone hire me!), among other things. I started writing on a GUI front-end for MMA a few weeks back (oh yeah, I KIVed the bus guide project) and this weekend I decided [...]

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Scores from Japan

Just received the music scores I ordered from Amazon Japan. First time I tried ordering stuff from Japan. Amazon Japan has an English interface, but knowing Japanese helps a lot. The delivery was fast, very fast actually. I was used to waiting for almost a month for stuff from Amazon US to get to this [...]

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Woohoo! Another toy!

Added another Irish whistle to my current collection of ah…just one. My friend currently studying in Dublin brought back a Generation C brass whistle for me (made in Britain, and he bought it in Ireland, haha). ^_^ Nice mellow sound, and I actually find it a bit easier to play than my Feadog D (nickel). [...]

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