Hi Frederick, 2013/12/3 Frederick Bartlett <frederick.bartl...@gmail.com>: > Now that I'm *cough, cough* an expert LilyPond user, I want to explore > something really difficult. > > My wife, a voice teacher, suffers from macular degeneration. Before her > vision degrades so much that she can no longer read printed scores, I'd like > to cobble together a system that > > scans piano-vocal sheet music > creates a LilyPond file > controls a digital piano with LilyPond's midi output > displays the score in sync on a tablet at arbitrary magnification > controls tempi and dynamics by gestures and taps (and/or voice commands) > (bonus round) 'listens' to the singer and adjusts tempi and dynamics to > match
This would be a very impressive and commendable thing! I would really like to help you, but i'm so busy that i really don't have time :-( I can only give some pointers: - scanning software will probably output MusicXML, so you should take a look at musicxml2ly converting tool. Peter Bjuhr have recently started an effort to export to MusicXML, so he's familiar with the subject - i suggest you contact him. You may also contact Philomelos (-> Patrick Schmidt), because they have some improvements for musicxml2ly that could be merged to LilyPond). - i think there are efforts to make Frescobaldi accept midi input (https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/291). You may try contacting that person, he may have more experience with MIDI. - for display synchronization and the like, you definitely want to contact Jan Rosseel from Scora (http://www.scora.net/). I hope this will help you. If you have specific questions (that can be answered in 2 sentences), i'd be more than happy to help. But i don't have time for much more, sorry! :-( > Judging by the success of Frescobaldi, most of this would seem to be > feasible. And I have five years or so to figure all this out ... > > Has anyone on this list ever used Audiveris or OpenOMR? I haven't, but i would like to investigate them if i had time... > How about creating non-paged graphical output from LilyPond? There were some attempts to do this, but i don't remember the details. hope this helps, janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
