Re: Lilypond with Cubase/DAW for Musical

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "JCHarris Music" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:08 AM
Subject: Lilypond with Cubase/DAW for Musical


> Hi,
>
> I am working a large piece with voice, dialogue, etc. (a 'musical'). I 
> have been using Cubase to mock up the various music bits. Surprisingly, I 
> have found the latest scoring functions to be not half bad at all. 
> Unfortunately, it still has some serious shortcomings in terms of adding 
> lyrics, dialogue, stage directions and so on... the stuff that has to be 
> in the final score and book.
>
> Ideally, I would love it if Cubase had features for all that stuff, but 
> until such a day, I'm wondering if anyone here has experience in using 
> Cubase for this sort of thing and how you handle this.
>
> I have been looking at LilyPond, which produces marvelous looking output, 
> but it looks like it would be a terror to input this large project into 
> directly. Fortunately, it does import MusicXML. So I am thinking of trying 
> to export from Cubase as MusicXML into LilyPond and then add the other 
> lyrics, stage directions, etc. in Lilypond.
>
> Any suggestions on doing such a workflow?

I do something similar using Noteworthy. 
(http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/)  I notate using Noteworthy, export 
using its text format and then use a self-written program to convert to 
LilyPond.  The single piece of advice I would give is to try to edit the 
LilyPond files as little as possible - I almost never touch them directly - 
I put all my annotations in Noteworthy, using hidden text as a code to 
transfer to LilyPond.  That way, I have only a single source of data.

I'm rather guessing this will be impossible with Cubase, but I think the 
principle is a good one.


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Phil Holmes