Re: Tips on quick entry

[David Kastrup]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 14:59 -0700, SoundsFromSound wrote:
>> tyronicus wrote
>> > Hello list,
>> > 
>> > It takes me ages to enter the note data into LilyPond. Last night I spent
>> > almost an hour a page just getting notes and lyrics in. Does anyone have
>> > any tips for quick entry? I do have a midi keyboard but haven't tried it
>> > much. It seems slow because I have to switch back and forth with the
>> > computer keyboard to do articulations, durations, etc.
>> > 
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Sam
>> > 
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>> Hello,
>> 
>> I recently made an in-depth video tutorial on how to input music fast with
>> LilyPond and your MIDI keyboard, as well as use Frescobaldi for very quick
>> input (articulations, dynamics, hairpins, etc). If you're interested here is
>> the link: 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdA1NLcBxLo
>
> That's a lovely looking video! You didn't mention controlling the rhythm
> of the notes that you play in, but you did cover chord entry.
>
> By contrast my video
> https://vimeo.com/61994482
>
> looks quite crummy and doesn't cover chord entry - I used to use the
> sustain pedal to indicate that the notes played should all be in one
> chord, but now I hold down the Alt key - you can do either in Denemo.
> The problem with depending on the timing of the ons and offs is that
> played musically notes which are intended to be sequential can often not
> be so, quite - not a problem I guess if you are playing in slowly,
> changing the duration each time it alters.

You know, if Frescobaldi development weren't apparently dead (no more
commits in the repository since October 1 and submitted trivial patches
get dropped on the floor), it would be worthwhile to make Frescobaldi
decide "chord-or-not" based on the overlap in duration.  That works
pretty well with the Emacs input mode I did.

But why bother when no patch is getting accepted any more?

-- 
David Kastrup