Not being a windows user, I can't really help you with the matter of
invocation. However, on the matter of midi2ly and translating midi files
to lilypond, there has been considerable discussion on this list.
Regarding midi2ly:
I need to know everything there is to turn a MIDI file into a Lilypond
file.
This is something that I, also have found confusing. Part of the problem
is that midi is a glorified piano roll punch card. Midi is very badly
suited to music notation, since it's designed -- specifically -- to be a
set of instructions for the production of sound. Translating this to the
(relative) simplicity of typography is difficult. I have personally never
gotten a midi file adequately translated. As mentioned by Graham, many
people --including me -- find that starting from scratch is probably
easier than dealing with translation software (such as midi2ly).
However, if you have a substantial body of work, and typing it from
scratch would be far too time consuming, I would encourage you to evaluate
MusicXML. I think Recordare has plugins or something of that nature that
allow Sibelius to output MusicXML. It is probably much easier to go from
MusicXML to Lilypond than from Midi to Lilypond. Further, there are two
tools available for this job, both of which seem to have generated
positive results. I have never used them, but I think they're called
musicxml2ly and xml2ly. I'm not positive, so search the archive for
MusicXML.
Good luck,
Josiah
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