Re: importing midifiles

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

Hello Bert,

musicsml2ly is also useful when scanning existing scores and exporting the 
result to MusicXML.

JM

> Le 17 avr. 2017 à 16:35, Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> 
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> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Bert Van den Brink wrote:
> 
>> Dear all I just subscribed to the mailing list and as a real beginner I have 
>> a question about importing midi.
>> How to configure that?
>> I already have the output of midi but maybe you need a totally different 
>> context for this.
>> As I am blind lilypond is really a fantastic tool aspecially for me to 
>> control really what I write in stead of computer programs taking their own 
>> decisions. :-)
>> Kind regards
>> Bert van den Brink
> 
> Welcome on the list Bert,
> 
> There is a commandline tool midi2ly (or midi2ly.py), which is part of the 
> lilypond distribution, It takes a midifile as input and outputs lilypond 
> code. It has several options to give a result that needs less manual tweaking 
> afterwards.
> 
> Another similar tool is musicxml2ly, which takes MusicXML files as input. 
> This can be useful to import scores from scoring programs like Sibelius, 
> Finale, or MuseScore, that all can export MusicXML. MusicXML is more suitable 
> than MIDI to export/import music notation.
> 
> a fellow Dutchman,
> 
> Martin
> 
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