Re: midi keyboard input

[lasconic]

Another way is to use MuseScore : http://www.musescore.org
Lilypond output is quite beta for the moment, but to get the pitches it
should be ok I guess. 
MIDI input is working on windows and linux.
You can even use a prerelease for ubuntu :
http://prereleases.musescore.org/linux/





M Watts wrote:
> 
> Laura Conrad wrote:
>> (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?
>>   
> 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.
> 
> 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/
>> 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.
>>   
> 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.
> 
> 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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