Re: SHEET MUSIC

[Carlos Garcia Suarez]

I have tried the following experiment.

1) Get one of your .ly files and process it.
2) Get the .midi output and process it with midi2ly
3) Check them

Result: they look very different

Another issue how do use the options in midi2ly, in particular the key
option ACC[:MINOR]

Can anyone provide an example with the syntax?

Thanks

Carlos



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Raleigh Arnold" <address@hidden>
To: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: SHEET MUSIC


>
> On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 16:37:09 Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > > HI,
> > > If I hooked up a music keyboard to my computer, would lilypond be
> > able to
> > > write the notes I play on sheetmusic for me to print out?  If so,
> > how does
> > > that work?
> >
> > Well, if you have some kind of sequencer program you
> > can use the keyboard to generate a MIDI file. Lilypond
> > comes with a utility called midi2ly which then can
> > produce a Lilypond input file. However, you'll probably
> > not want to use this route since you have to play extremely
> > rhythmical to get the desired note durations and you still
> > have to edit the .ly files to add slurs, dynamics and all
> > other information that's printed in a score but not
> > included in the MIDI file.
>
> I found that lilypond did slurs surprisingly well and
> dynamics somewhat in 1.4.13, but
> the dynamics were not very satisfactory.  I suspect that
> the cause of that is two voices on one staff, but playing
> with the defaults might help too.
>
> Q. Is it possible to override the default velocity values
> in the .ly file?  I think many compositions might profit
> from a rehash in the working directory.  Can that be done?
>
> Midi doesn't handle unisons very well.  If midiInstrment were
> voice instead of staff context, it might be better, and
> it would be possible to get harmonics, for example.  Until
> the happy day that that is fixed, the hack is to
> copy your working directory's contents and make a midi
> producing version of your file with each voice on a
> separate staff.  You might even prefer to work that
> way.  Your midi version of your .ly file
> can also have different dynamics for each voice, which
> might look rather strange in your printed version.
> Of course it is extremely advisable
> that each piece have its own directory anyway, so you
> would copy ~/lily/yourpiece/* to ~/lily/yourpiece-midi/
>
> I hope that access to the drum patches will soon be less arcane.
>
> All that remains is a way of including the lyrics, to make a
> .kar file, and a way of writing to the header fields of
> the midi file for copyright notice, etc., and lilypond
> will be a formidable midi sequencer.
>
> > >From what I have seen on the mailing list, the people
> > who have tried midi2ly have soon abandoned that
> > strategy and come to the conclusion that it's faster
> > to use the ordinary computer keyboard to write the
> > Lilypond file directly.
>
> I think many will change their minds when they start
> using an exterior file to produce the notes.  Then
> every .ly file becomes a template and the default .ly
> file merely a receptacle.
> >
> > You could also try the graphical score editor NoteEdit
> > which includes a sequencer the apparantly is more clever
> > than midi2ly. NoteEdit can export several different
> > file formats, including Lilypond files.
> >
> It is a good thing.  Denemo, too.
>
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