Re: mid and midi

[Stan Sanderson]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Francois Planiol-Auger wrote:

> Hi!
> I am searching how to convert *.mid to ly. (mainly from tobis- 
> notenarchiv.de
> I wrote already about, but I dont still have a working solution.
>
> It seems to me that mid and midi very different file-formats are.
> See in PS.
> With
> > midi2ly file.midi (from mutopia)
> ... works fine
> but not with midi2ly file.mid. (from tobis-notenarch...)
> I get then a not usable file.ly
> (I got these 2 files of the same choral from bach in mid and midi  
> for test)
>
> I tried/searched till now:
>
> - First way: convert mid2midi then midi2ly (look for differences in  
> PS)
> I found a script mid2midi*, but unfortunately it is a matlab  
> script, so I cant
> use it. Matlab doesnt seems to have much contact with private  
> persons...
>
> - Second way:
> open file.mid with noteedit then export as lilypond and purify the .ly
> file!!!... Very heavy. Not practicable for the many files I have to  
> handle.
> But if there is no other solution...
>
> - Third and best way, but how?
> mid2ly
> I found an advice in sourceforge.jp** that there was either a  
> mid2ly and a
> midi2ly. Is that true? How to convert from mid? Unfortunately, I cant
> understand Japanese...
>
> - ThirdA: it would be helpful, of course, to have a cap2ly, but it  
> seems to be
> a difficult topic ;-) or is it not?
>
> Of course, I want to convert pieces that do only in this .mid  
> format exist.
> For BWV734, I dont need that anymore ;-)
>
> That it for now. I hope my english is human readable ;-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Francois
> still using 2.10.25
>
> * neural.cs.nthu.edu.tw/jang/matlab/toolbox/CBMR/mid2midi.m
> ** http://mytexpert.sourceforge.jp/index.php?LilyPond (was lilypond  
> 2.6.5)
>
> PS
<snip>

Francois-

Your English is infinitely more readable than would be my French.
I would like to ask whether you have tried replacing the ".mid"  
extension
with ".midi" when using midi2ly. I just tried it with a Bach lute  
prelude from
the tobis site. While I don't use midi2ly very often, the results  
seem o.k.

Stan