Re: excluding a staff from MIDI output

2013-08-08 Thread Jan Kašpar
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Glen Larsen wrote: > I often use this when developing guitar tabs so the MIDI output doesn't > double up: > > \new TabStaff = "Guitar tabs" \with { > \remove "Staff_performer" > } Excellent! This is just what I was looking for. Many thanks! _

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 04:29, schrieb SoundsFromSound: Thoughts? http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/08/development-diary-part-two/?fb_source=pubv1 For now just one: Let's see if Kieren's comments on the post provoke _any_ response. Anybody ready to write a post on lilypondblog.org about polymetrics, absenc

Redefining \parenthesisOpenSymbol

2013-08-08 Thread Vaughan McAlley
Most scores I do (renaissance choral editions) have no slurs and hundreds of \melisma and \melismaEnds. My source code would look a lot nicer if I could redefine ( and ) to mean \melisma and \melismaEnd. What is wrong with this code? \version "2.16.1" slurStart = #(make-span-event 'SlurEvent STAR

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread SoundsFromSound
I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the LilyPond mentions. As a former SCORE user, personally I can't possibly imagine /ever /going back now that I've tried LilyPond. There truly is just no comparison. Period. With LilyPond, you're only limited by your imagination

Re: Redefining \parenthesisOpenSymbol

2013-08-08 Thread David Kastrup
Vaughan McAlley writes: > Most scores I do (renaissance choral editions) have no slurs and > hundreds of \melisma and \melismaEnds. My source code would look a lot > nicer if I could redefine ( and ) to mean \melisma and \melismaEnd. > What is wrong with this code? > > \version "2.16.1" > > slurS

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 10:35, schrieb SoundsFromSound: I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the LilyPond mentions. As a former SCORE user, personally I can't possibly imagine /ever /going back now that I've tried LilyPond. There truly is just no comparison. Period. With Lil

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
SoundsFromSound writes: > I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the > LilyPond mentions. Yes, it could be very interesting to know why comments about Lilypond are ignored. The blog did inspire me a little bit, we could add two new glyphs to the feta font that have

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 11:06, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: SoundsFromSound writes: I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the LilyPond mentions. Yes, it could be very interesting to know why comments about Lilypond are ignored. The blog did inspire me a little bit, we could

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Urs Liska writes: > And I think that adding text input as an option (if it is thoroughly > thought through) would be a great step forward for the resulting > program. Aren't they talking about keyboard entry, instead of text input? Text input is about the storage format. Most wordprocessors hav

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 11:11, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: Urs Liska writes: And I think that adding text input as an option (if it is thoroughly thought through) would be a great step forward for the resulting program. Aren't they talking about keyboard entry, instead of text input? Text input is about

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 11:08, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 08.08.2013 11:06, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: SoundsFromSound writes: I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the LilyPond mentions. Yes, it could be very interesting to know why comments about Lilypond are ignored. The

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
I'm not that surprised. During the last few years I became something nerd-like. After beeing a Mac-User for a long time, I now only use Ubuntu or Debian and all its related tools for my everyday work. So for me using lilypond is a quite natural thing and I am getting better and quicker using em

Re: Redefining \parenthesisOpenSymbol

2013-08-08 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 8 August 2013 18:45, David Kastrup wrote: > Vaughan McAlley writes: > >> Most scores I do (renaissance choral editions) have no slurs and >> hundreds of \melisma and \melismaEnds. My source code would look a lot >> nicer if I could redefine ( and ) to mean \melisma and \melismaEnd. >> What is

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > SoundsFromSound writes: > >> I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the >> LilyPond mentions. > > Yes, it could be very interesting to know why comments about Lilypond > are ignored. Maybe because some people don't comment on things they

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 12:47, schrieb David Kastrup: Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: SoundsFromSound writes: I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the LilyPond mentions. Yes, it could be very interesting to know why comments about Lilypond are ignored. Maybe because some pe

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread David Kastrup
SoundsFromSound writes: > I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the > LilyPond mentions. Frankly, if I were Daniel, I'd be pissed already. I think he is perfectly correct to remind people that his blog is not the place for LilyPond advocacy. Since it is also not

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 13:13, schrieb David Kastrup: SoundsFromSound writes: I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the LilyPond mentions. Frankly, if I were Daniel, I'd be pissed already. I think he is perfectly correct to remind people that his blog is not the place fo

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:06:36 +0200 Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > If I import some musicXML the virtual instruments sound > much better than the standard midi output of either timidity or > mac-quicktime. Isn't this just a question of which soundfont is bundled? We distribute Denemo with a samll (5Mb

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 08.08.2013 14:02, schrieb Richard Shann: On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:06:36 +0200 Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: If I import some musicXML the virtual instruments sound much better than the standard midi output of either timidity or mac-quicktime. Isn't this just a question of which soundfont is bundled

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 08.08.2013 13:13, schrieb David Kastrup: >> >> He does have misconceptions about LilyPond, but his blog is not the >> place to address them. Yes, that's unfortunate, but please behave >> like one would expect guests to behave. We are not doing our case a >> favor by makin

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 14:08, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Am 08.08.2013 14:02, schrieb Richard Shann: On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:06:36 +0200 Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: If I import some musicXML the virtual instruments sound much better than the standard midi output of either timidity or mac-quicktime. Isn't thi

Re: Web site down?

2013-08-08 Thread Tim Slattery
Francois Planiol wrote: >Probably a good news? (many guys downloading lily or consulting >manuals online...) Maybe...I was wondering about a DDOS, but who knows Makes it difficult for somebody that I clue in about Lily to take a look. Anyway, it seems to be back up now. -- Tim Slattery slatte

high-quality audio output from Lilypond (was "Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software")

2013-08-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > What could be useful however (I don't know _anything_ about it) would be to > add a chapter to the documentation talking about how to get high-quality > audio output from/through LilyPond, referencing useful free soundfonts or > whatever is useful to get this to work. Agreed. I have

Re: high-quality audio output from Lilypond (was "Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software")

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 15:19, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, What could be useful however (I don't know _anything_ about it) would be to add a chapter to the documentation talking about how to get high-quality audio output from/through LilyPond, referencing useful free soundfonts or whatever is us

Example worth placing in lilyblog?

2013-08-08 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello, I've written a bash script and a set of .ly templates to generate scales in various modes for all 21 pitches. Should I create a post to show how it's done thanks to the power of LP? Two sample output files can be found at http://picpaste.com/aes_Trebble-eUkTiH8o.png and http://picpaste

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann writes: > On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:06:36 +0200 > Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > >> If I import some musicXML the virtual instruments sound >> much better than the standard midi output of either timidity or >> mac-quicktime. > Isn't this just a question of which soundfont is bundled? We d

Fwd: Re: Example worth placing in lilyblog?

2013-08-08 Thread Malte Meyn
Oh, forgot to send a CC to the list. And yes, I’m from germany an meant “b flat minor”, not “b minor” … Original Message Subject: Re: Example worth placing in lilyblog? Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:38:11 +0200 From: Malte Meyn To: Jacques Menu Hello, isn’t melodic minor downw

Re: high-quality audio output from Lilypond

2013-08-08 Thread Johan Vromans
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Urs, > >> What could be useful however (I don't know _anything_ about it) would >> be to add a chapter to the documentation talking about how to get >> high-quality audio output from/through LilyPond, referencing useful >> free soundfonts or whatever is useful to get

Re: high-quality audio output from Lilypond

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 17:24, schrieb Johan Vromans: Kieren MacMillan writes: Hi Urs, What could be useful however (I don't know _anything_ about it) would be to add a chapter to the documentation talking about how to get high-quality audio output from/through LilyPond, referencing useful free soundf

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > I'm not that surprised. > During the last few years I became something nerd-like. After beeing a > Mac-User for a long time, I now only use Ubuntu or Debian and all its related > tools for my everyday work. > So for me using lilypond is a qu

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:32 08/08/2013 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: I use LibreOffice because the default operation for text is fine. If I was writing out complex math equations, it'd be a different story. Surely not: you'd use LibreOffice's Math facility! Brian Barker __

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 17:40, schrieb Brian Barker: At 10:32 08/08/2013 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: I use LibreOffice because the default operation for text is fine. If I was writing out complex math equations, it'd be a different story. Surely not: you'd use LibreOffice's Math facility! Brian Barker

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Tim McNamara" To: "LilyPond Users" Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 4:32 PM Subject: Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software Similarly LilyPond is probably not the most appropriate tool for most people just looking to print out some chord c

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread David Kastrup
Tim McNamara writes: > On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > >> I'm not that surprised. >> During the last few years I became something nerd-like. After beeing >> a Mac-User for a long time, I now only use Ubuntu or Debian and all >> its related tools for my everyday work. >> So f

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread luis jure
on 2013-08-08 at 14:16 Urs Liska wrote: > What could be useful however (I don't know _anything_ about it) would be > to add a chapter to the documentation talking about how to get > high-quality audio output from/through LilyPond, referencing useful free > soundfonts or whatever is useful to g

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.08.2013 18:05, schrieb luis jure: on 2013-08-08 at 14:16 Urs Liska wrote: What could be useful however (I don't know _anything_ about it) would be to add a chapter to the documentation talking about how to get high-quality audio output from/through LilyPond, referencing useful free soundf

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Tim Reeves
> Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 01:35:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: SoundsFromSound > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software > Message-ID: <1375950947119-148848.p...@n5.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I'm surprised

Re: high-quality audio output from Lilypond

2013-08-08 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/8/8 Johan Vromans > Generating audio is one of the important reasons to use LilyPond. > > I use Timidity++ on a Linux system with CrisisGM351 soundfont, and I > get very acceptable results. I must admit that I cannot remember where I > got this soundfont from, but AFAIK it's a free font. >

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread SoundsFromSound
I agree. That's the main reason why I chose to write that comment on this mailing list vs. his blog post ;) David Kastrup wrote > SoundsFromSound < > soundsfromsound@ > > writes: > >> I'm surprised that no one else in those comments responded to any of the >> LilyPond mentions. > > Frankly,

Re: excluding a staff from MIDI output

2013-08-08 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/8/7 Glen Larsen > I often use this when developing guitar tabs so the MIDI output doesn't > double up: > > \new TabStaff = "Guitar tabs" \with { > \remove "Staff_performer" > } > Thanks Glen, I never realized it! I see that the size of the midi file is reduced by an half. Most

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread SoundsFromSound
SCORE was amazing and practically limitless. Back in the DOS days. Now, with "newer" versions of the program? I'd only use it if I was forced. YMMV Tim Reeves-3 wrote >> Message: 9 >> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 01:35:47 -0700 (PDT) >> From: SoundsFromSound < > soundsfromsound@ > > >> To: > lilypo

Re: high-quality audio output from Lilypond

2013-08-08 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Bruni writes: > maybe this one? > http://www.bismutnetwork.com/04CrisisGeneralMidi/Soundfont3.0.php > > free as in beer, but not Free I definitely didn't get it from there (you need to register to get a password). You can find "GM SoundFonts - Crisis GM 3 51 ZSF Edit Sf2" on many torre

Re: high-quality audio output from Lilypond

2013-08-08 Thread Johan Vromans
Urs Liska writes: > Would you mind uploading an example somewhere? Not at all. Do you have a MIDI file you want to have processed? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user