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roland

23 May, 2014 07:25 PM

When can we expect beaTunes 4? And will it support the camelot notation for the key detection?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 23 May, 2014 08:00 PM

   
   1. Probably July. No Promises.
      
   2. Camelot notation is proprietary and not open, i.e. not usable by anyone without a license. Therefore I will stick to Open Key Notation, also adopted by Native Instruments.
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2. 2 Posted by roland on 23 May, 2014 08:35 PM

   

   Thanks a lot for fast and competent answers as usual.

   PS: I know the circumstances about the camelot notation. But is it
   really so expensive or is it on principle

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 24 May, 2014 10:06 AM

   

   I'm a strong believer in open standards and–where appropriate–open source software. Sure, beaTunes is not open source, but most of its core libraries (written by myself and others) are.
   I would very much appreciate, if MIK moved their notation into the public domain, but clearly they are not doing it.
   Personally, I have my doubts whether their intellectual property claim would hold up in court at all, if anybody ever tried to challenge them.
   So to answer your question: I have no idea whether they charge anything at all for their license. But once you start accepting, that they have anything licensable, you are in a bad position, should they ever start asking for fees.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 19 Aug, 2014 04:34 PM

   

   Quick update on this:

   I built in the possibility to create your own key renderer.
   See this article for details.

   Cheers,

   -hendrik

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5. 5 Posted by roland on 20 Aug, 2014 01:10 PM

   

   Great - thank you!

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