Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

[Shane Brandes]

Lilypond is a purely a typesetting program. There is no native way to
input midi to Lilypond. You will need a secondary program like Rumor
or Denemo to record your midi and then convert to xml and then to
lilypond. Rosegarden or Musescore also might assist in the process.
Most of Lilyponders seem to find it easier to input by text and more
accurate and oddly enough faster than fussing with midi.

best of luck,
Shane

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:20 PM, searchfgold6789
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking for a way to create Lilypond files at a better speed than just
> typing them by hand. Someone suggested I use my computer keyboard as a MIDI
> keyboard. I didn't know Lilypond could do this, and looking online, I found
> vmpk, rumor, and lyqi and compiled the latest versions of each with success.
>
> Vmpk is the midi keyboard itself, and rumor and lyqi are the programs that
> take input from a midi device and convert it into lilypond syntax, right?
> Lyqi seems more advanced, somehow, than rumor... My question is, which
> should I use, and how should I use it? I can start vmpk successfully, but
> beyond that I am unsure on what to do. `lyqi` returns "command not found"
> and `rumor` reports: "ALSA port connection error; do it manually using
> `aconnect'".
>
> `aconnect -i` says:
>
> $ aconnect -i
> client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
>     0 'Timer           '
>     1 'Announce        '
> client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
>     0 'Midi Through Port-0'
> client 128: 'VMPK Output' [type=user]
>     0 'VMPK Output     '
>
> ... and `aconnect -o` says:
>
> $ aconnect -o
> client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
>     0 'Midi Through Port-0'
> client 129: 'VMPK Input' [type=user]
>     0 'VMPK Input      '
>
> I am not sure what I should connect to what. What is particularly confusing
> to me is why "inputs" are listed under the list of what are supposed to be
> "outputs".
>
> Has anyone had success with getting Midi to Lilypond to work?
>
> I appreciate your time,
>
>  - R.
>
>
>
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