On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 12:00 -0400, lilypond-devel-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > From: Laura Conrad <lcon...@laymusic.org> > Subject: Re: How to develop Emacs mode? > To: Nicolas Sceaux <nicolas.sce...@gmail.com> > Cc: David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>, lilypond-devel@gnu.org > Message-ID: <87wrtvazky....@laymusic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Sceaux <nicolas.sce...@gmail.com> writes: > > Nicolas> Several years ago, I used a midi keyboard to enter the > notes: one hand > Nicolas> on the midi keyboard, and one hand on the computer > keyboard, to set > Nicolas> durations, because I'm a lame keyboard player. But it > turned out that > Nicolas> (in my case) that method was not quicker (or practical) > than full computer > Nicolas> keyboard entry. > > I do use that method still. I find it's not a lot quicker, FWIW:
What *is* a lot quicker is "playing in" the rhythm of the piece using the computer keyboard and then playing the notes over the top, using the MIDI keyboard. You get to leverage your sight-reading ability, and can enter music in the time it takes you to play it thru twice. This is *not* trying to guess the rhythm from your timing, but entering the rhythm via the LilyPond names 0, 1, 1., 2, 2. etc which appear as a kind of drum track. So you can slow down a bit if it gets too quick, but you can follow the music because you naturally enter the durations rhythmically as you read the music. Of course, you need Denemo to do this:) In the upcoming version 0.8.18 this will be possible out-of-the-box, without setting any modes and so on. I realize this won't be much use to those with a lot of skills built up using other entry methods, but there are always newcomers. Richard Shann > but is a > bit less error prone, for my purposes. When I do "relative" entry > from the computer keyboard, I make a lot of octavation errors. > > But I agree with David that it needs better intelligence about > enharmonic notes -- if I weren't doing Renaissance music, which has a > lot higher percentage of "white notes" than later styles, I might well > decide that fixing the enharmonics was taking as much time as I was > saving on the octavation errors. > > Another thing I'd really like added to this input method is a way to > hear the MIDI notes. > > -- > Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) > (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 > http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
