On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 11:44 +0200, Jonathan Scholbach wrote: > Hi! > > Does somebody have experiences with inputting voices via MIDI? I know > that several programs exist with which you can enter music (to Finale- > or Sibelius-output or to MusicXML) by step-recording. But is there a > (good) program which allows you to record the music with your > midi-keyboard and get a .ly-output? > The main problem seems to be the rhythmic imprecision of humans playing > the piano. Is there a program which deals with that? If there is no such > program do you know attempts to write it?
I created an intermediate method, a sort of super-step-recording for the Denemo front end to LilyPond. You can enter each change of rhythmic duration along with the notes as in ordinary step-recording but in addition you can enter the rhythm for whole bars, phrases, lines and even wole movements before playing the notes (which adds the pitches to the rhythms). When I did this I thought I was just making an slight improvement over step recording. But I discovered that as I entered the rhythms I fell into entering the durations rhythmically, and that this felt a bit like playing a drum. That is, I was leveraging my sight-reading ability to enter the rhythm as music, helping to keep my place in the music. Over time I created key shortcuts that meant dotted rhythms, triplets, and slurs could all be entered without breaking rhythm. Where the rhythm is repetitive I *do* break rhythm, e.g. copying the rhythm of one bar to the next, or filling out a bar with the same rhythm already entered etc. Entering rhythms is still a bit of a bore, but as each has its own sound I find I get a very high degree of accuracy and can often enter a voice in the time it takes to play it twice. Once you have entered your notes there is a command to generate the LilyPond syntax for them into a file. HTH Richard _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
