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From: | M Watts |
Subject: | Re: midi keyboard input |
Date: | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:19:41 +1000 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081105) |
Laura Conrad wrote:
Is midi-input-mode aware of jack? Sounds (no pun intended) like you need the emacs mode to create a midi input port so that you can connect your midi keyboard to it via jack, as well as to qsynth.(This is in Ubuntu 8.10 linux.) I can use midi-input-mode in emacs to enter lilypond notes with my left hand, and the durations on the numeric keypad with my right hand. I can set up qsynth with jackd so that I get audio for the notes I play on the MIDI keyboard. But if I have the notes set up to sound, they don't get into the emacs buffer, and vice versa. I have done some playing with qjackctl and midi-thru and such, and have not stumbled on a solution that would allow me to both see the lilypond in the emacs buffer and hear the notes I play. Can anyone give me a hint?
Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/
There's always rosegarden, the all-singing, all-dancing midi sequencer, which includes lilypond output, both as .ly and .pdf -- it should be in Ubuntu repositories.I know there are several other ways to use a MIDI keyboard for lilypond input; I have tried some of the others, and this was the first one I managed to get working. If nobody knows the answer to this specific question, but does have some other way to use a MIDI keyboard to both see lilypond and hear audio output, I'd be glad to hear about specifics.
Rosegarden's lilypond output is usually better than the hamfisted method of recording a midi file with a non-lilypond aware app, and processing the file with midi2ly.
Hydrogen (drum machine) also includes lilypond output.
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