XML is a human readable format so aside from prettiness it’s the same thing as a plain text export, but is better for using with other tools/scripts. It has other export formats, like CSV which might be more suitable.
Print in KeePass prints tables of data columns etc, or would if it worked on my machine, you must have read about the “Print Emergency Sheet” function.
Yea, I think I probably did read about that, not exporting the database to xml.
All doesn’t seem well with Syncthing so far, but it may be a matter of needing to use separate folders that can be easily identified by device. Simply setting up a ‘Sync’ folder on each device for two devices seemed to work well enough. After adding a third device with a ‘Sync’ folder, when deleting a file from one of the devices Syncthing seems to get stuck in a loop of adding the file back from another device, and at some point Syncthing hung between two devices. Also the interface is not too user friendly, but it’s manageable. I’ll try separate folders tomorrow when I have more time.
I gave up on Syncthing. The best tool I could find for sharing files between devices is LocalSend. It allows for sharing files and text over a local network, it is very simple to use, and the privacy policy doesn’t make me raise a brow. It can run in the background, or not. No sync capability, but I can live without it.
Have you considered Nextcloud?
I had considered setting an always up rpi or old laptop with nextcloud or something else. Outside of that, nextcloud looks pretty heavy for just passing some occasional files between a few devices.
I need some kind of set and forget auto sync being connected to different networks so a cloudy thing works best. With encrypted files it doesn’t really matter much about cloud encryption. murena.io has free accounts that use Nextcloud so you’d just need to the clients on your devices.
If you don’t need auto syncing and it’s just a few files it might still be overkill.
I never did sign up for murena.io after moving to e. I’ll check it out.
Syncing would definitely be nice, but only for a few files for me. In most cases I just want to grab a file or two from another device for a 1x view and then toss it to prevent the sort of cluster fuck that I just cleaned up across my devices.
ShareX is a more powerful alternative to the Windows snip tool. The main feature for me is selection handles upon capture (enabling multi-select in settings). It can do a lot of other fancy stuff that may come in handy, too.
I’m poking back around in Musescore. It seems to have come a long way.
Lol, and people ask “what on earth could we need faster broadband for”
How are you finding keyscape compared to the alternatives? It’s one of the software options I’m considering for our mac fleet in our music class rooms.
Keyscape is pretty nice, with some buts.
The C7 grand sounds nice, but it’s not terribly versatile. It has the limitation of no half-pedaling (more important to classical players). It has a character that is bright and airy, which can’t be fully dialed out. There will always be at least a bit of a bright edge to the sound. Interesting to me is that I don’t notice the bright airiness in demos on youtube. The sample recordings are also fairly noisy (like thermal noise), which really becomes obvious with tape compression enabled and when repeating notes. The damper noise is high, too, which adds to the realism, but dialing it down is a tradeoff with lopping off the release too much. I am able to find a happy medium point, though. It sounds really nice overall, but if I only had one sampled piano, this wouldn’t be it. It does have a lot of detail and a really nice sound, and I would say that the quality is a good notch above the NI pianos that I have - Grandeur, Maverick, etc.
I’m not a big fan of the upright. Listen to some demos and see if you like the character of it. It sounds good and well done. But It has an airy attack noise to it, and it’s overboard on character for my taste. And I’m not talking about the tack version of the same piano. This definitely wouldn’t be my pick for an upright sampled piano. I would put it on the opposite end of the spectrum with VILabs Modern U, which also sounds good and well done. Modern U sounds much more versatile, but to my ears it isn’t characterful enough for an upright, too vanilla.
The electric pianos are bangers. But the Rhodes’ and Wurly’s were recorded with pretty high 60 cycle hum. There is a selectable noise reduction feature that does a really good job, but it takes away a bit of the upper frequency detail. I think Spectrasonics likely favored the realism of the noise, so opted for less clean recordings, since it can be dialed back to a satisfactory level. I haven’t heard better sounding electric pianos from anyone else. Rhodes’s, Wurly’s, Pianet’s, Clav, and some others.
The other instruments are fun to tinker with, and they sound miles above the quality of say the included instruments in Kontakt, as do the acoustic pianos and electric pianos. But I think the other instruments will be occasional novelties for most people.
I guess I would say that if the person buying it is really into electric pianos, it’s a nice package. As a package with acoustic pianos, I think most people are going to be looking to add at least another grand piano that is more versatile while still getting some good mileage out of the C7. I don’t see anyone defaulting to the upright as a main player, so if a person wants an upright, that will be another instrument to acquire.
One other possible consideration is that Keyscape has a polyphony of 64. I haven’t heard any limitations from it so far. I think they traded off deeper dynamics for less polyphony, stating that sampling is up to 64 velocity layers.
That was a far more comprehensive answer than I was expecting. Thanks!
We aren’t able to run stacks of options simultaneously, so versatility beats out one or two perfect instruments. If this basically takes care of keyboards, well enough, then it’s a contender.
I’ll see what our more keyboard capable teachers think.
It does, and you could do a heck of a lot worse. All the instruments are well done and high quality. My caveats are mostly personal preference.
I found a welcome discovery in Keyscape today. I tend to mostly ignore presets in plugins, going for a basic patch and starting to tweak from there to see what is possible. But Keyscape’s presets aren’t necessarily just presets. Some of them add in elements of the sound engine that aren’t available in other presets. While I think that is an asinine thing to do in presets, it is nice to know that I can get a woody, much less bright, piano sound. So I would now say that the grand piano is pretty versatile.
I did some AB’ing between Keyscape’s Wurlies and the ancient Scarbee A200 in Kontakt. Keyscape has more detail, and it includes mechanical samples of the reeds which can be faded in and out as wanted, which I really like. But I think I’m actually liking Scarbee more because it has a smoother response, making it more playable. Keyscape has a sudden jump in response at the upper velocities, which is a pretty poor thing to leave unaddressed in such an expensive library. And noise can be more effectively dialed out in Scarbee. The main negative with Scarbee A200 is that the included Kontakt effects are pretty poor, so it needs help there from other plugins.
Ditto is a Windows clipboard manager that has sharing across machines on the network. Just go to Options > Friends and enter the ip address or hostname for each machine. After that, you can right-click anything on the clipboard, select Send To, and choose the host name. Or you can set up sharing all clipboard entries automatically by adding the hostname to the the list for sharing all in Options > Friends.
I’m using Espanso now, which is a free and open source, cross-platform, text expander application. Also, the documentation is exceptionally well done.
My work team (and a lot of other information workers) use a Chrome browser extension called, Prokeys, which does text expansion. The gist of using Prokeys is that you define snippets, which are shortened strings, followed by a defined key sequence, and the short string expands to a defined longer string. So for example:
short string: spcb
key sequence: Shift + Space
expanded string: Spoke to person for a check-in call. Person requested a call back.
A new version of a web app that we use for work pretty much broke Prokeys functionality for our team, and we have been needing to use a kludgy workaround. Since the Prokeys source is available I tried hacking on it a bit to add a simulated Esc keystroke to get around the web app breaking expansions, but Chrome has so many hoops for running unsigned extensions that I wasn’t able to get the modified extension to run to see if it works. But I ended up finding Espanso today, which is better than Prokeys. Finding this got me back text expansion, and it let’s me move away from Chrome for work (eat it Google).
