Re: MIDI Input/Invoke

[Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence]

James- I'm torn on this one but my experience may help 
as an example.  I just finished the input of a triple 
choir plus countertenor piece (handwritten score was 90 
pages 13 staves) .  It took me most of January to do it 
in my spare time and to correct 'most' of my errors in 
typing.
I then took the midi file of that and imported it into 
another notation program which publishes my material on 
a website.
First all the accidentals were wrong.  Triplets were 
interpreted in various incorrect ways, all the lyrics 
had to be imported and then corrected.  Slurs were not 
imported at all etc....
Some of this may be the second notation program, most of 
it is what midi is capable of (I think).

So- did I save some time doing it this way instead of 
starting over?
Maybe a week.
But it was frustrating.

The best thing about it was that I found a bunch of 
input errors and can go back to the lily file and 
correct those, making both products better.

Hope this adds something.
Jay

Graham Percival wrote:
> On 2-Feb-06, at 9:07 AM, James McFadyen (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
>
> > The Lilypond manual isn't user-friendly enough in this respect, it 
> > tells you what to do but doesn't give you a working example. It also 
> > says to invoke it from the command line. Does this mean I click Start 
> > - Run and then type in cmd to bring up the command prompt and then 
> > invoke from there, if so I've tried it with no luck...
>
>
> Yes, the command line (in windows) is start-run-cmd.  Invoke it from 
> there.  If you get an error message, search the mailing list for that 
> error (in case the question has been answered before), otherwise post it 
> here.
>
> > 1) How do I 'invoke' MIDI (ie where EXACTLY does the code get written 
> > in order to start the invoke process)
>
>
> Not in the code.  You run "midi2ly input.midi" from the command line.
>
> > I need to know everything there is to turn a MIDI file into a Lilypond 
> > file. I have been using Sibelius, but have recently saw the light and 
> > started using Lilypond (what a fab program) Just need a way to get my 
> > Sibelius scores into Lilypond format and the only way to do that at 
> > present is to export the Sibelius file as a MIDI file and somehow 
> > change the MIDI file into Lilypond by so-called 'invoking'.
>
>
> You will lose a lot of formatting data by exporting to midi; it might be 
> faster simply to start again from scratch.  Many lilypond users have 
> reported that it was easier in the long run to do this.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
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