> HI, > If I hooked up a music keyboard to my computer, would lilypond be able to > write the notes I play on sheetmusic for me to print out? If so, how does > that work?
Well, if you have some kind of sequencer program you can use the keyboard to generate a MIDI file. Lilypond comes with a utility called midi2ly which then can produce a Lilypond input file. However, you'll probably not want to use this route since you have to play extremely rhythmical to get the desired note durations and you still have to edit the .ly files to add slurs, dynamics and all other information that's printed in a score but not included in the MIDI file. >From what I have seen on the mailing list, the people who have tried midi2ly have soon abandoned that strategy and come to the conclusion that it's faster to use the ordinary computer keyboard to write the Lilypond file directly. You could also try the graphical score editor NoteEdit which includes a sequencer the apparantly is more clever than midi2ly. NoteEdit can export several different file formats, including Lilypond files. /Mats _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
