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re:Manuscript Writer To Lilypond convertor
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Martin Tarenskeen |
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re:Manuscript Writer To Lilypond convertor |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:32:48 +0200 (CEST) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote:
Hello, Another reason: I just finished my first orchestral piece, and
would like to use vst to hear the real sound. But Lilypond's midi output
is not suitable for Sibelius and Garritan, and I have to make many
specialized tracks which wasted my expensive time. I want to make a demo
of my music and share it with others.
What do you mean with "not suitable" ?
A Lilypond to MusicXML conversion tool probably will not solve the limited
MIDI capacities of Lilypond. I think this should be solved inside Lilypond
first. Todo:
1. input syntax - some extra commands could be useful to add MIDI
information in Lilypond input files. For example to add control changes,
bank + program changes, pitchbends, sysex commands.
2. midi output - more lilypond stuff could be translated to MIDI, for
example dynamics, staccato, portato, accents.
I don't see this happen today or tomorrow, but it is something to think
about in the future. Even programs like abc (using abcMIDI) and mup, which
are in general less powerful languages than lilypond, have better MIDI
support than lilypond.