Good news, fellow LilyPond-ers! I have written a small jEdit plugin (attached) that converts MIDI key strokes to LilyPond pitches in relative mode. It is also available from http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/MidiInput.jar. Source code can be found at http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/MidiChords-source.zip. Instructions on manually installing a jEdit plugin are found at http://plugins.jedit.org/install.php.
Features: - enharmonic resolution in any major/minor key or church mode - distinguishes very well between single pitches and chords, producing chord constructs where needed - supports all LilyPond pitch languages (nederlands, arabic, catalan, deutsch, english, español, italiano, norsk, portugues, suomi, svenska, vlaams) I have tested the plugin successfully with a Roland UM-1 USB MIDI adapter under Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Vista. Some preliminary testing suggests that I am between 2 and 3.5 times faster at entering pitches with MIDI keyboard than by typing, so I am very happy to have this. The biggest improvements occur when entering keyboard music in keys with many sharps or flats. I believe that this is the first time that MIDI input is available across all three major platforms (but correct me if I'm wrong). Bertalan has expressed interest in including this as part of LilyPondTool at some point in the future, but in the meantime, I hope someone else finds this as helpful as I have. Feedback welcome. Happy New Year, Andrew
MidiInput.jar
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