Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

[Michael Ellis]

Thanks Graham,
I just downloaded and looked at Dr. Chubb's script.  It looks nicely
coded  and seems to address a number of issues that bother me about
LilyPond's midi output.
Cheers,
Mike



On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:50:37PM -0500, Michael Ellis wrote:
>> I've been thinking for a while about broaching the subject of
>> LilyPond's midi output on this forum -- I feel  that this is one area
>> where Lily is rather behind the curve compared to her commercial
>> sisters. I wonder if some of your work could be applicable to helping
>> LilyPond generate sound that's as beautiful as the sheet music.
>
> Unfortunately, Vivi isn't applicable to lilypond directly --
> redistributing all the audio feature extraction and machine
> learning code would be a monumental task, as well as probably
> quadrupling the download size.  The kind of audio performance by
> Vivi is not at all related to MIDI.
>
> A first place to look at improving the MIDI output would be
> integrating Dr. Peter Chubb's work on articulate.ly:
> http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>