[LAU] Rosegarden -> lilypond help

[gene heskett]

On Friday, December 16, 2011 03:21:40 PM Bob van der Poel did opine:

> Hi Gene (assuming you're my old Tandy Color Computer Friend) ...

I hope so Bob, although its been a decade or so since we last typed at each 
other I think.  Apparently you are not subscribed to Dennis's coco list at 
maltedmedia.com though.  Glad to see you got away from the Redmond 
monolith.

> > Thanks, got it and installed it, makes me ask WTH is:
> > 
> > 0 TimeSig 4/4 24 8
> 
> The last field here is the number of midi ticks per quarter note. My
> program MMA generates this as 192 (ticks per "beat"). Others use 384.
> I'd try changing this and see what happens.

That line didn't trigger my curiosity because its exactly the same for a 
commercially produced 26 second snippet of Tennessee Flat Top Box that I 
grabbed from the J-Cash cd AmericanIV "The man comes around", released  
after he died IIRC.  He knew his time was near, and some of that is tear-
jerkingly sad, but its pure Johnny Cash too.

> > 0 Tempo 428571
> 
> With this and the BperQ value you can determine the tempo in Beats per
> minute. But right now I forget the exact way :) In my programs a tempo
> of 120 BPM has a value here of 500000.
> 
> In MMA this value is determined by taking the desired beats per minute
> (BPM) and dividing that into 6000000. Problem right now is remembering
> how i got the 6,000,000 value :)

What is this MMA?  I don't recall reading about it before.  Something you 
wrote?  Humm, found you on google, listened to a snippet of cedars and 
bought the cd.  I'm a sucker for a well blown Sax!  Great stuff IMO.

> > 0 Arb f8
> 
> If you look at the source for MF2M or midicomp this is generated by an
> "arbitrary length" data message. I've never run into one in my stuff.
> If you need to I can dig in some of my manuals and see if I can find
> more ... but I'd guess it's some kind of junk.
> 
> > 2 Arb f8
> > 4 Arb f8
> 
> HTH, Bob.

I stripped all those lines out of the .mid file, works well now except that 
rosegarden has locked me up totally, 3 times while playing a song, in the 
last 20 hours. 2 different songs.  :)

Cheers, Gene
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