Hi all! Here some remarks by the author of NtEd concerning sib2ly and the mail by Johan Vromans:
"NtEd has problems importing the MIDI. It seems to insist on putting the 4 voices on a single staff." Indeed, NtEd is the one and only LINUX software which distributes the MIDI notes onto multiple voices per staff. This is necessary in many cases. All other LINUX software MIDI tools produce nonsense if the MIDI --> score process would actually require multiple voices per staff. But true is also: The NtEd MIDI import is buggy, it crashes and hangs :-(( I'm about to implement a new algoritm which partly works but will be published not until May. This will have an appropriate button: "Place different MIDI tracks at different staves". Let me explain why the 4 MIDI tracks appear on one staff: There are MIDI files where every staff is in one track. But there are also MIDI files which contain less tracks than instruments. The worst case is: All instruments are in one track. Many music keyboards produce MIDI files of this kind. How is it possible? There is a MIDI command: MIDI PROGRAM CHANGE (PGM), which switches the instrument. A MIDI file of this sort looks like: PGM "flute": note c; PGM "piano": note d; PGM "organ": note f; a.s.o. Of course, I cannot collect these different instruments in one staff. Therefore, I first separate the notes according to the instrument which shall play them. Unfortunately, this algorithm sorts 4 flutes which appear in 4 tracks into one staff :-(( As already mentioned: There will be a button ... -- J.Anders, GERMANY, TU Chemnitz, Fakultaet fuer Informatik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
