Joe Austin: > I am offering to help with the project of converting midi2ly from > C to Python, or more generally converting MIDI to Lilypond. ...
midi2ly is part python and part c, you can find them in git repo.: scripts/midi2ly.py python/midi.c midi2ly has been in the repository since 2001 according to logs. If external dependances are ok, you can find midi support for python below the header "MIDI Mania" in https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi can possible be of help. /// Midi file spec. are available at: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt306/midiformat.pdf https://www.midi.org/specifications/item/standard-midi-files-smf The midi-file spec. and RP-017 could be of help. /// If you are interested, I'm working on a similar tool, in perl though: http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/bin/miditoly.pl I'm using perls midi module https://metacpan.org/pod/MIDI, a simple midi dump program is available at http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/bin/midi.pl /// I have just started writing a paper to discuss implementions and huristics in the conversion: http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/bin/midi_to_lilypond.tex I'd be happy if you want to contribute to that paper and any possible developments around midi -> lilypond in any programming language. From the top of my head, on my wishful agenda is: collect midi files generated from different notation programs together with pdf outputs from same programs examine and establish huristics how to identify lyrics character encodings try to reserach and define a few conventions on how the lilypond code should be written and structured and write a output module/function for each convention e.g. relative and absolute pich output, names of music variables to match the users preferences research how polyfonic settings are written to midi file, how do you identify voices from a track with multiple voices research and define huristics to guess voice and instrument names support note scaling, i.e. duble, half note values and such among other things. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
