Re: midi keyboard input

[M Watts]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> (This is in Ubuntu 8.10 linux.)
>
> I can use midi-input-mode in emacs to enter lilypond notes with my
> left hand, and the durations on the numeric keypad with my right hand.
>
> I can set up qsynth with jackd so that I get audio for the notes I
> play on the MIDI keyboard.
>
> But if I have the notes set up to sound, they don't get into the emacs
> buffer, and vice versa.
>
> I have done some playing with qjackctl and midi-thru and such, and
> have not stumbled on a solution that would allow me to both see the
> lilypond in the emacs buffer and hear the notes I play.
>
> Can anyone give me a hint?
>   
Is midi-input-mode aware of jack?   Sounds (no pun intended) like you 
need the emacs mode to create a midi input port so that you can connect 
your midi keyboard to it via jack, as well as to qsynth.

Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) 
from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/
> I know there are several other ways to use a MIDI keyboard for
> lilypond input; I have tried some of the others, and this was the
> first one I managed to get working.  If nobody knows the answer to
> this specific question, but does have some other way to use a MIDI
> keyboard to both see lilypond and hear audio output, I'd be glad to
> hear about specifics.
>   
There's always rosegarden, the all-singing, all-dancing midi sequencer, 
which includes lilypond output, both as .ly and .pdf -- it should be in 
Ubuntu repositories.

Rosegarden's lilypond output is usually better than the hamfisted method 
of recording a midi file with a non-lilypond aware app, and processing 
the file with midi2ly.

Hydrogen (drum machine) also includes lilypond output.