Laura Conrad wrote:
(This is in Ubuntu 8.10 linux.)
I can use midi-input-mode in emacs to enter lilypond notes with my
left hand, and the durations on the numeric keypad with my right hand.
I can set up qsynth with jackd so that I get audio for the notes I
play on the MIDI keyboard.
But if I have the notes set up to sound, they don't get into the emacs
buffer, and vice versa.
I have done some playing with qjackctl and midi-thru and such, and
have not stumbled on a solution that would allow me to both see the
lilypond in the emacs buffer and hear the notes I play.
Can anyone give me a hint?
Is midi-input-mode aware of jack? Sounds (no pun intended) like you
need the emacs mode to create a midi input port so that you can connect
your midi keyboard to it via jack, as well as to qsynth.
Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode)
from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/
I know there are several other ways to use a MIDI keyboard for
lilypond input; I have tried some of the others, and this was the
first one I managed to get working. If nobody knows the answer to
this specific question, but does have some other way to use a MIDI
keyboard to both see lilypond and hear audio output, I'd be glad to
hear about specifics.
There's always rosegarden, the all-singing, all-dancing midi sequencer,
which includes lilypond output, both as .ly and .pdf -- it should be in
Ubuntu repositories.
Rosegarden's lilypond output is usually better than the hamfisted method
of recording a midi file with a non-lilypond aware app, and processing
the file with midi2ly.
Hydrogen (drum machine) also includes lilypond output.
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