Yep! You can set pretty-much any scale you'd like from the Main Menu. Click/tap the note buttons you'd like to turn on or off, and then head back to the Tablature Screen to get into some good, customized practice!
Technically... yes, I could. However... both my sensei have said that we need to practice breathing as measures come to an end so we start the next measure on time. (One of my sensei got on me for developing a bad habit of putting pauses between measures of our folk songs to breathe.)
However... on the other side of the coin... "ma" (space for breath) is an important part of Honkyoku....
So... yeah... I'll see what I can do. Hopefully I can come up with something that'll make both camps happy. :)
Yep! It's got a pretty robust notation parser... for folk-songs at least, at the moment.
In the coming weeks, I'll be unlocking a feature where you can input your own music -- I have to make sure I make sure the system doesn't go kablooey if it can't handle something it's fed. :)
It's my hope that this might be a way to preserve, share, and learn melodies that might otherwise be lost to history.
Ooooh. Not yet.
I want to... but I'm going to have to learn more about programming to be able to code an interface to be able to read/write/store/play honkyoku.
It's very, very, very, very high on my wish-list, but I've run into some problems with Unity so... see "What's next" for the rest of the answer to this question.
Absolutely! What good's a tool that's not being fully used?
Well, basically, I'm making this tool for myself: filling notebook pages with things that totally make me geek-out. So It's grown... and then-some.
The problem is, it's out-grown Unity.
As much as I've loved that Development Environment, I'm experiencing problems with its Audio Subsystems that are "deal-breakers". :(
So, I've begun learning to develop in Unreal Engine -- learning a whole new programming language that makes my head swim.
But... the initial tests... well... they're promising.
I don't want to talk about it 'cause I don't want to jinx it.
And it'll take at least a year, if not more, to get the new tool to do all that I want it to.
And nope... there'll be no Kickstarters or anything like that. I've gotta build this tool for myself, first and foremost. That it might be able to help others in similar situations too -- that's gotta be a happy side-effect.