Hi, Janek Thanks for those terrific tips. Once I know enough to have questions that require only two-sentence answers, I'll be sure to contact you.
Thanks again, Fred On 8 December 2013 06:17, Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Frederick, > > 2013/12/3 Frederick Bartlett <frederick.bartl...@gmail.com>: > > Now that I'm *cough, cough* an expert LilyPond user, I want to explore > > something really difficult. > > > > My wife, a voice teacher, suffers from macular degeneration. Before her > > vision degrades so much that she can no longer read printed scores, I'd > like > > to cobble together a system that > > > > scans piano-vocal sheet music > > creates a LilyPond file > > controls a digital piano with LilyPond's midi output > > displays the score in sync on a tablet at arbitrary magnification > > controls tempi and dynamics by gestures and taps (and/or voice commands) > > (bonus round) 'listens' to the singer and adjusts tempi and dynamics to > > match > > This would be a very impressive and commendable thing! > I would really like to help you, but i'm so busy that i really don't > have time :-( > I can only give some pointers: > - scanning software will probably output MusicXML, so you should take > a look at musicxml2ly converting tool. Peter Bjuhr have recently > started an effort to export to MusicXML, so he's familiar with the > subject - i suggest you contact him. You may also contact Philomelos > (-> Patrick Schmidt), because they have some improvements for > musicxml2ly that could be merged to LilyPond). > - i think there are efforts to make Frescobaldi accept midi input > (https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/291). You may try > contacting that person, he may have more experience with MIDI. > - for display synchronization and the like, you definitely want to > contact Jan Rosseel from Scora (http://www.scora.net/). > > I hope this will help you. If you have specific questions (that can > be answered in 2 sentences), i'd be more than happy to help. But i > don't have time for much more, sorry! :-( > > > Judging by the success of Frescobaldi, most of this would seem to be > > feasible. And I have five years or so to figure all this out ... > > > > Has anyone on this list ever used Audiveris or OpenOMR? > > I haven't, but i would like to investigate them if i had time... > > > How about creating non-paged graphical output from LilyPond? > > There were some attempts to do this, but i don't remember the details. > > hope this helps, > janek > -- “To my knowledge I have no knowledge.” -- John Kerry, the Secretary of State of the United States of America, in response to Senator Barbara Boxer, 3 Sep 2013
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