Another way is to use MuseScore : http://www.musescore.org Lilypond output is quite beta for the moment, but to get the pitches it should be ok I guess. MIDI input is working on windows and linux. You can even use a prerelease for ubuntu : http://prereleases.musescore.org/linux/
M Watts wrote: > > Laura Conrad wrote: >> (This is in Ubuntu 8.10 linux.) >> >> I can use midi-input-mode in emacs to enter lilypond notes with my >> left hand, and the durations on the numeric keypad with my right hand. >> >> I can set up qsynth with jackd so that I get audio for the notes I >> play on the MIDI keyboard. >> >> But if I have the notes set up to sound, they don't get into the emacs >> buffer, and vice versa. >> >> I have done some playing with qjackctl and midi-thru and such, and >> have not stumbled on a solution that would allow me to both see the >> lilypond in the emacs buffer and hear the notes I play. >> >> Can anyone give me a hint? >> > Is midi-input-mode aware of jack? Sounds (no pun intended) like you > need the emacs mode to create a midi input port so that you can connect > your midi keyboard to it via jack, as well as to qsynth. > > Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) > from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/ >> I know there are several other ways to use a MIDI keyboard for >> lilypond input; I have tried some of the others, and this was the >> first one I managed to get working. If nobody knows the answer to >> this specific question, but does have some other way to use a MIDI >> keyboard to both see lilypond and hear audio output, I'd be glad to >> hear about specifics. >> > There's always rosegarden, the all-singing, all-dancing midi sequencer, > which includes lilypond output, both as .ly and .pdf -- it should be in > Ubuntu repositories. > > Rosegarden's lilypond output is usually better than the hamfisted method > of recording a midi file with a non-lilypond aware app, and processing > the file with midi2ly. > > Hydrogen (drum machine) also includes lilypond output. > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/midi-keyboard-input-tp21223111p21231074.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
