Re: MIDI input [was Re: Nested transposition]

2021-03-14 Thread Silvain Dupertuis
Hello everyone, As I do not have any midi keyboard, I have programmed for myself a web-piano-keyboard-entry (HTML-CSS-JavaScript). I use regularly for Lilypond - it combined different syntax, does Lylipond in relative mode. Actually, if was to be used for other systems also. You can find the fi

Re: MIDI input [was Re: Nested transposition]

2021-03-14 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 12:41 PM Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > >> 1. I use Frescobaldi. > > > > Wow. I missed this somehow. I can see why you use absolute values > exclusively, Kieren. I'm almost exclusively transcribing and transposing > fiddle tunes. I

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 220, Issue 40

2021-03-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
p.s. This workflow discussion is, to some extent, mutually exclusive from the “relative vs. absolute” discussion: Frescobaldi will automatically generate code in whichever format you want. =) Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 220, Issue 40

2021-03-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, > How do you manage enharmonics? Is the black key between C and D a C sharp or > D flat? Unless the music is completely tonal, I'd have thought you spent more > time adjusting the accidentals than simply inputting the music from the > computer keyboard. But I may be wrong. Certainly i

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 220, Issue 40

2021-03-14 Thread Peter Toye
Kieren, How do you manage enharmonics? Is the black key between C and D a C sharp or D flat? Unless the music is completely tonal, I'd have thought you spent more time adjusting the accidentals than simply inputting the music from the computer keyboard. But I may be wrong. Certainly in the song

Re: MIDI input [was Re: Nested transposition]

2021-03-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ralph, >> 1. I use Frescobaldi. > > Wow. I missed this somehow. I can see why you use absolute values > exclusively, Kieren. I'm almost exclusively transcribing and transposing > fiddle tunes. I do a lot of entry from sheet music, and do a lot of > proofreading, then transposing. Not terrib

Re: MIDI input [was Re: Nested transposition]

2021-03-14 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 9:14 PM Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Carl! > > >> My music entry is done 99% by MIDI input, so I type almost no commas or > apostrophes. > > Can you tell me how you do your MIDI input? I'd like to do that, but I > don't have a good workflow

why Kieren is a \relative evangelist [was “Re: Nested transposition"]

2021-03-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Davids, >> One might wonder why the subject of \relative, a textual input >> method, should concern you so much. 1. I lament how much struggle I went through for the decade that I used \relative, and how much struggle I see other newbies go through — posting about it, over and over — because

Re: Nested transposition

2021-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > On Sat 13 Mar 2021 at 09:21:07 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> Hi Elaine, >> >> > That may be so, but you likely pay for it every day by typing out >> extra commas and apostrophes. >> >> My music entry is done 99% by MIDI input, so I type almost no commas >> or apostr