Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

[Grammostola Rosea]

Johan Vromans wrote:
> Domain Admin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius plug-in to
> > export Lilypond data.
> >     
>
> I'm one of the people that have to convert Sibelius scores to Lilypond
> on a regular basis.
>
> I use MIDI export from Sibelius, and the MIDI import / Lilypond export
> facility of Rosegarden.
>
> This has some drawbacks. The RG generated notes are absolute, repeats
> are unfolded, and RG has the bad habit to insert small rests and
> tenutos where it thinks it would improve the sounding.
>
> It does export the lyrics, ties, slurs and such.
>
> Either approach (plugin and Rosegarden) requires quite some manual
> editing. However, having a second, and useful, Lilypond input source
> does surely help.
>
>   
Did you try to import midi in NtEd? and export it to lily. I thought the 
midi import is pretty good of nted, don't know how well the lilypond 
export functions works..

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