Re: importing midifiles

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Bert Van den Brink wrote:

> Dear all I just subscribed to the mailing list and as a real beginner I have a 
> question about importing midi.
> How to configure that?
> I already have the output of midi but maybe you need a totally different 
> context for this.
> As I am blind lilypond is really a fantastic tool aspecially for me to control 
> really what I write in stead of computer programs taking their own decisions. 
> :-)
> Kind regards
> Bert van den Brink

Welcome on the list Bert,

There is a commandline tool midi2ly (or midi2ly.py), which is part of the 
lilypond distribution, It takes a midifile as input and outputs lilypond 
code. It has several options to give a result that needs less manual 
tweaking afterwards.

Another similar tool is musicxml2ly, which takes MusicXML files as input. 
This can be useful to import scores from scoring programs like Sibelius, 
Finale, or MuseScore, that all can export MusicXML. MusicXML is more 
suitable than MIDI to export/import music notation.

a fellow Dutchman,

Martin