Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

[James Harkins]

On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:04:36 PM HKT, Richard Shann wrote:
> > My music only seldom follows common practice tonality, 
>
> The built-in support is for any range (e.g. E-flat to G-sharp, or D to
> F-double-sharp), with the modulation controller on the MIDI keyboard
> changing the range sharper or flatter. So if you wanted some assorted
> collection of sharps and flats (E-flat with A-flat but F-sharp ...) you
> would need a bit of scheme to convert the notes as they arrive, which is
> quite do-able - there are examples of this sort of MIDI filter in
> Denemo.

Sure, that may be of interest to the other people on the thread who *are* 
looking for MIDI input. For myself, I prefer working with the code directly, 
and I will likely continue to prefer the code even if there's the option of 
super-amazingly-accurate MIDI input.

That's the great thing about LP's more open design. In Finale, basically your 
only choices are speedy note entry (meaningless without a MIDI keyboard, and 
really poor handling of enharmonics) or simple note entry (mouse only, and I 
sincerely hope I'm never forced to do it that way for any length of time). In 
LP, I can do it by code if I like (and I do), AND user-developers like you can 
devise alternate input methods.

hjh