Re: Separating pitch and rhythm

[Janek Warchoł]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Siska Ádám <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2012.03.21., at 19:18, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Siska Ádám <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> is there an effective way to separate the pitches and the rhythms in a 
>>> voice? I'm thinking about something like defining a variable consisting 
>>> only of rhythms:
>>> The purpose is: I'm engraving a long, homophonic section
>>> in an orchestral piece, where cca. 30 instruments play
>>> the same rhythms, but with different pitches.
>>
>> Use Frescobaldi's copy/paste durations function.  (unless you want to
>> have this "carved" into your source files).
>
> The last time when I checked, there was no available Mac installer for 
> Frescobaldi, so it's not an option for me. :-(

Ah.
Well, if i were you, i'd install Linux as a virtual machine and use
Frescobaldi there (unless your machine is very slow).  You can use our
instructions for installing Lilydev:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor-big-page#lilydev

hth,
Janek