On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:50:54 +0200 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Strings are so expressive they can never be properly > >> synthesized. I grant you that. > > > > To be fair, I'd assume that this applies even more to vocal music > > -- quite apart from the expressivity of voice, midi doesn't even > > attempt to add lyrics. > > Yes and no! The MIDI files from LilyPond indeed contain the lyrics > in a form that can be used by some MIDI sequencers to show the lyrics > in a Karaoke-like fashion. But, unless festival has improved tremendosly, those don't affect the sound output at all. That's what I was talking about -- audio output as opposed to png or pdfs. AFAIK singing lyrics is still an area of research and experimental programs (like the vocaloid software that's popular in Japan). It certainly isn't part of the typical MIDI sequencers found on normal computers. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
