I have always missed a few things in any music notation package I know of:
* The ability to input music "step-time" with *only* my MIDI keyboard * Easy input of repeating rhythmic or articulation patterns Free software is all about "scratching your own itch" (in Eric Raymond's elegant formulation), so I made an GNU Emacs elisp package to input notenames with a MIDI keyboard which lets you do the above-mentioned things. http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/midi-input-0.01.tgz It is a minor mode for GNU Emacs to type note names (in GNU LilyPond format) with your MIDI keyboard. You can bind text or Emacs functions to "shifted" notes (i.e. notes you play very loudly or together with a special "shift" note). There are special functions for fast typing of repeated patterns (dotted rhythms or repeated articulations). I only tried it under Linux; other Unices will probably work, but as it contains a bit of C code to capture the output from the MIDI keyboard I am not too optimistic about getting it to run under Windows. Hans Lub [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://utopia.knoware.nl/uck/software _______________________________________________ Gnu-music-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-music-discuss
