[LAU] Text to Midi

[rosea.grammostola]

On 03/19/2012 03:05 PM, Michal Seta wrote:
> +1
> I am interested, too.
>
> Perhaps you guys know Grace (http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/). It's
> not command line and it has its own GUI but it's perfectly suitable for
> composing (via programming, either in scheme or its own built-in
> language SAL) and writing compositions to MIDI, Lilypond (needs fomus
> library), CSound etc. If you really need to use CLI, you can build it
> from sources and you get a cm binary that can be run as Emacs inferior
> process.
>
> But I am sure you knew all that already...
> Cheers!
>
> ./MiS
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:10 PM, S. Massy <lists at wolfdream.ca
> <mailto:lists at wolfdream.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 06:33:24PM +0100, Nils wrote:
>      > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:41:46 -0500
>      > "S. Massy" <lists at wolfdream.ca <mailto:lists at wolfdream.ca>> wrote:
>      >
>      > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:52:21PM +0100, Nils wrote:
>      > > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:40:17 -0500
>      > > > "S. Massy" <lists at wolfdream.ca <mailto:lists at wolfdream.ca>>
>     wrote:
>      > > >
>      > > > > Hello,
>      > > > >
>      > > > > One important way in which I have made music on Linux in
>     the past is
>      > > > > using text-to-midi software to create tracks. The software
>     I used back
>      > > > > then, and have used occasionally in the past few years, is
>     midge[1], a
>      > > > > text-to-midi programme written in perl with a strong
>     emphasis on
>      > > > > randomisation (randomised timing, weighted random note
>     selection, random
>      > > > > block selection, etc.). Allas, it does not appear to have
>     been updated
>      > > > > in nearly six years now, and, though it still works fine for my
>      > > > > purposes, I'm wondering whether I should switch to
>     something new before
>      > > > > diving back into text sequencing. Does anyone know of other
>     such
>      > > > > programmes offering similar randomisation features? I've
>     heard good
>      > > > > things of Bob Van Der Poel's mma, but its focus seems more
>     on templating
>      > > > > styles and quick composition: is that correct?
>      > > > >
>      > > > > Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated, as always.

Rumor. Also with coming Frescobaldi, it will be able to record input 
from a midi device and convert is to lilypond afaik.

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