Making lilypond MIDI output more expressive

[Silas S. Brown]

Hi,

I found a GPL program called Director Musices (the result of
a PhD thesis) that makes MIDI output more expressive.  I
found it works quite well with Lilypond's MIDI output.  You
might want to package it with lilypond (I'm not sure how
permanent its current site is) or make a script that calls
it or something.  Here's how I got it to work:

1. Download Director Musices from
   http://www.speech.kth.se/music/performance/download/dm-download.html

2. Follow the instructions in README.txt about downloading
   CMU Lisp and editing the make-dm1-cmulisp.lsp file

3. Do lisp -load /path/to/dm/lib/make-dm1-cmulisp.lsp
   (substituting /path/to/dm appropriately)

4. When the menu comes up, select option 2 and type in the
   full pathname of Lilypond's MIDI output (WITHOUT putting
   quotes around it, contrary to what the prompt seems to
   suggest)

5. Select option 3 and type
   /path/to/dm/rulepalettes/default.pal (substituting
   /path/to/dm appropriately)

6. Select option 7 or 8 and type a pathname for the output
   MIDI file

7. Select q, and enter (quit) at the Lisp prompt

An "expect" script could be used as a quick way of
automating this, or you could go into the Lisp internals.
It would be nice to be able to take Lilypond to expressive
MIDI in one command.

Best wishes.              Silas


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