[LAU] voices from midi

[S. Massy]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 08:39:16AM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Jeremiah Benham <jjbenham at chicagoguitar.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > I am not aware of an application that does this. What do you need this for?
> >
> > Jeremiah
> >
> 
> I have lots of  music typed into nted -- probably 100s of hours of work.
> I need to port this to... well shall we say... more portable applications?
> I like to use linux and nted is a sweet app.
> But to expect my music-buddies to know how to spell "linux", or that OS and
> Windows are not synonymous is faintly ridiculous.  For that it looks like
> musescore fits the bill. I work on linux they work on windows (some macs)
> and there are not conflicts when we swap music.
> 
> If I could get things out via lilypond or musicxml that would be ideal but
> neither work.
> 
> So midi is the only (constricted) pipeline between nted and musescore.
I have no idea how useful/convenient this could be, but have you
considered abc? 
http://abc.sf.net

I believe there are other options out there for converting midi to
textual representation and back, but, once again, I really don't know
how useful any of it would be in this context.

Cheers,
S.M.