Re: help needed with project notation strategy
Dave Phillips writes: > Since every note was hand-entered into the sequencer - I'm a guitarist > with no music keyboard skills - I think it's a safe bet that > everything's quantized, i.e. all durations are exactly as I wanted > them. Oh. Have you thought about a chromatic button accordion or keyboard? It's just like a 16-string guitar tuned in minor thirds and with 2-4 frets (corresponding to 3-5 button rows). Namely, chords have shapes you can move all over the place and transposing by one semitone means just sliding one fret, excuse me, button row up. Transpose by a minor third by moving one string, pardon, button column to the side. Nice keyboard instrument to play by ear. At any rate: if you have hand-entered your Midi in a grid (not relying on mouse precision), I should think that you should find settings/options where midi2ly's interpretation does not suck horribly. > Thanks for the reminder re: Rosegarden, I'll try the MIDI file there > to see how it shows up in the notation page. It might help. With input of that size, wasting some time on converters before making a decision is certainly warranted. Personally, I'd not worry too much over durations and would be prepared to hand-edit them. I think it's more important that you get polyphony dealt with sensibly, or you'll likely be better off retyping from scratch. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: help needed with project notation strategy
On 02/20/2016 09:15 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Dave Phillips writes: Greetings, I wrote a piece for piano that I want to notate with LilyPond. The piece has some difficult aspects regarding which I need some advice or just confirmation that my strategy is sound (or not). The piece is long, 848 measures of varying textures, styles, tempi, and time signatures, with a playing time of about 34 minutes. I plan to cut the file into manageable sections and hand-enter the notation in LP code. There are unplayable parts that I'll assign to a recorded part, though I also want to notate them. What's your current relation to Emacs? I'm asking because I have half-workable text entry tools for it but they are in a state where you'd likely also invest time in the code and its use rather than just whatever you are going to input with it. Thanks for that offer, David, but I'm a vi kind of guy. :) Alas, my knowledge of emacs is too slim to be useful. Other than that, there is also "rumor" for automatic pitch detection. It does not split polyphonic stuff though. With regard to splitting Midi tracks at split points _and_ doing Midi quantizing/notation it might also be an idea to look at Midi sequencers like Rosegarden. I think that midi2ly sucks less when already dealing with quantized Midi, so even just running stuff through Rosegarden for quantization might help. Since every note was hand-entered into the sequencer - I'm a guitarist with no music keyboard skills - I think it's a safe bet that everything's quantized, i.e. all durations are exactly as I wanted them. Thanks for the reminder re: Rosegarden, I'll try the MIDI file there to see how it shows up in the notation page. Best, dp ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: help needed with project notation strategy
Dave Phillips writes: > Greetings, > > I wrote a piece for piano that I want to notate with LilyPond. The > piece has some difficult aspects regarding which I need some advice or > just confirmation that my strategy is sound (or not). > > The piece is long, 848 measures of varying textures, styles, tempi, > and time signatures, with a playing time of about 34 minutes. I plan > to cut the file into manageable sections and hand-enter the notation > in LP code. There are unplayable parts that I'll assign to a recorded > part, though I also want to notate them. What's your current relation to Emacs? I'm asking because I have half-workable text entry tools for it but they are in a state where you'd likely also invest time in the code and its use rather than just whatever you are going to input with it. Other than that, there is also "rumor" for automatic pitch detection. It does not split polyphonic stuff though. With regard to splitting Midi tracks at split points _and_ doing Midi quantizing/notation it might also be an idea to look at Midi sequencers like Rosegarden. I think that midi2ly sucks less when already dealing with quantized Midi, so even just running stuff through Rosegarden for quantization might help. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
help needed with project notation strategy
Greetings, I wrote a piece for piano that I want to notate with LilyPond. The piece has some difficult aspects regarding which I need some advice or just confirmation that my strategy is sound (or not). The piece is long, 848 measures of varying textures, styles, tempi, and time signatures, with a playing time of about 34 minutes. I plan to cut the file into manageable sections and hand-enter the notation in LP code. There are unplayable parts that I'll assign to a recorded part, though I also want to notate them. I haven't had a lot of luck with midi2ly, though I'm sure I need to learn how to fine-tune its output. Odd groups (7:4, 5:3, 11:4, etc) occur frequently, and I'm not sure how to specify their correct conversion with midi2ly. Also, the original sequence has both hands on a single track. Is there any handy way to indicate a split point for switching staves, i.e. a way to recognize right and left hand passages ? (I think I might be asking for an impossibility, would love to learn otherwise). I can hand-enter it to manuscript, no trouble, but I need a digital publication-ready score. I figure the work will take many months, hence my desire to find the most efficient working method, any useful advice will be hugely appreciated. Btw, I'll likely use Frescobaldi as front-end for LP. The piece is here is anyone wants to check it out, but please understand I'm not advertising my music on this list. This recording sucks anyway sound-wise, I hadn't purchased Pianoteq then. I also plan to re-record the piece with that software. https://soundcloud.com/davephillips69/piano-zero Thanks in advance for any advice and/or suggestions for an improved working method. Best regards, Dave Phillips ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
