[LAU] voices from midi

Jeremiah Benham jjbenham at chicagoguitar.com
Thu Dec 29 21:05:10 UTC 2011


Lilypond can convert midi to lilypond and then also produce midi. Lilypond is mainly what I use. In the past I have exported to musicxml in proprietary programs then used lilypond utilities to convert musicxml into midi. 

Jeremiah



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"S. Massy" <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:

>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.


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