Re: Custom keypad for streamlining LilyPond input - thoughts?

[Jon Arnold]

You might check out Companion, which is an open source alternative to the stream deck software. It can run on a Stream Deck or any touch interface that can access the web UI over a network (like a smartphone).

You can make graphic icons for the buttons.

For what it's worth I used to use a program that would convert some keys on my MIDI keyboard to things like bar checks, rests, rhythmic values, etc. Some examples:

https://github.com/taerin-markman/midi2key

https://midikey2key.de/ (Windows only)

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 12:16 PM Nikolai Hedler <nhedler@gmail.com> wrote:

After some research, I found some discussion of a software tool
Nicolas built that had a similar intention; from what I can tell, his
strategy was to use this software to interpret input from a standard
keyboard as LilyPond functions, rather than using separate hardware.
The obvious advantage of his approach is that no additional hardware
is required; on the other hand, it is only compatible with the editing
software it was written for and requires the user to learn (and, I
believe, memorize) the key "map" or use a "cheat sheet" of some sort.
Unfortunately, it also appears that it's no longer available...

- Nikolai

On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:07 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
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> Le 08/04/2022 à 02:34, Nikolai Hedler a écrit :
> > 3. Has something like this been done before for LilyPond?
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> You might be interested in discussing this with Nicolas Sceaux, who did
> something similar if I recall correctly.
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> https://editions-nicolas-sceaux.fr/
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> Best,
> Jean
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