I have tried the following experiment. 1) Get one of your .ly files and process it. 2) Get the .midi output and process it with midi2ly 3) Check them
Result: they look very different Another issue how do use the options in midi2ly, in particular the key option ACC[:MINOR] Can anyone provide an example with the syntax? Thanks Carlos ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:46 PM Subject: Re: SHEET MUSIC > > On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 16:37:09 Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > > 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. > > I found that lilypond did slurs surprisingly well and > dynamics somewhat in 1.4.13, but > the dynamics were not very satisfactory. I suspect that > the cause of that is two voices on one staff, but playing > with the defaults might help too. > > Q. Is it possible to override the default velocity values > in the .ly file? I think many compositions might profit > from a rehash in the working directory. Can that be done? > > Midi doesn't handle unisons very well. If midiInstrment were > voice instead of staff context, it might be better, and > it would be possible to get harmonics, for example. Until > the happy day that that is fixed, the hack is to > copy your working directory's contents and make a midi > producing version of your file with each voice on a > separate staff. You might even prefer to work that > way. Your midi version of your .ly file > can also have different dynamics for each voice, which > might look rather strange in your printed version. > Of course it is extremely advisable > that each piece have its own directory anyway, so you > would copy ~/lily/yourpiece/* to ~/lily/yourpiece-midi/ > > I hope that access to the drum patches will soon be less arcane. > > All that remains is a way of including the lyrics, to make a > .kar file, and a way of writing to the header fields of > the midi file for copyright notice, etc., and lilypond > will be a formidable midi sequencer. > > > >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. > > I think many will change their minds when they start > using an exterior file to produce the notes. Then > every .ly file becomes a template and the default .ly > file merely a receptacle. > > > > 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. > > > It is a good thing. Denemo, too. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Information is not knowledge. Belief is not truth. > Indoctrination is not teaching. Tradition is not evidence. > David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Lilypond-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
