Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-12 Thread Jack Campin
>>> The c>c construct is a problem because it is notated as a >>> 3:1 ratio but played as a 2:1 ratio. >> Played by whom? Does the standard document this? > Played by abc2midi and played by most players of hornpipes, > I believe. If you try changing abc2midi so that it uses a 3:1 ratio, > you

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-12 Thread Jack Campin
>On Mon 11 Jun 2001 at 01:47PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote: >> >> midi2abc seems actually to do a fair job interpreting midi files, it's >> the ABC part of the program that seems to be the problem. [...] >> B/c> instead of: >> B/c/ d>cB| >> The last one seems to be an midi2abc favourite, poppi

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-12 Thread Phil Taylor
>On Tue 12 Jun 2001 at 06:35AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: >> > "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> James> The c>c construct is a problem because it is notated as a >> James> 3:1 ratio but played as a 2:1 ratio. >> >> Played by whom? Does the standard docum

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-12 Thread Laura Conrad
> "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> The c>c construct is a problem because it is notated as a James> 3:1 ratio but played as a 2:1 ratio. >> >> Played by whom? Does the standard document this? >> James> Played by abc2midi and played b

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-12 Thread James Allwright
On Tue 12 Jun 2001 at 06:35AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James> The c>c construct is a problem because it is notated as a > James> 3:1 ratio but played as a 2:1 ratio. > > Played by whom? Does the standard document this

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-12 Thread Laura Conrad
> "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> The c>c construct is a problem because it is notated as a James> 3:1 ratio but played as a 2:1 ratio. Played by whom? Does the standard document this? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ )

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-12 Thread James Allwright
On Mon 11 Jun 2001 at 02:23PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > > Original: > L:1/2 > B d c > c B A > > midi2abc: > L:1/8 > B4d4c4-|c3/2c2-c/2B4A4 > > Which should be: > > B4 d4 c4-|c2 c2 B4 A4 > > So it looks to me like either midi2abc or abc2midi isn't handling the > ">" very well. Incidental

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread Laura Conrad
> "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> On Mon 11 Jun 2001 at 01:47PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote: >> B/c> instead of: >> B/c/ d>cB| >> >> The last one seems to be an midi2abc favourite, popping up all the time. James> My guess is that this

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread Frank Nordberg
Richard Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Frank Nordberg wrote: > > > I can't write a perl script to save my life, though. > > Curious thought. save_franks_life.pl I might pay a lot for that one ;-) Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/li

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread Frank Nordberg
James Allwright wrote: > > My guess is that this is a stylistic change made by whoever created the > MIDI files. In this particular case I created the midi files myself with Finale, using every trick I know of to optimize them for midi2abc. Actually, I use midi2abc and abc2midi almaost exclusi

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread James Allwright
On Mon 11 Jun 2001 at 01:47PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote: > > midi2abc seems actually to do a fair job interpreting midi files, it's > the ABC part of the program that seems to be the problem. Here are a few > exemples taken from my attempts to convert Terpsichore: > > A2 c2- instead of: > A2 c

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Frank" == Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> There is however, nothing in midi2abc that some rather Frank> simple post-processing can't fix. Doing this manually might Frank> or might not take a lot of time (no. 1 in Terpsichore took Frank> me more than an hou

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Frank Nordberg wrote: > I can't write a perl script to save my life, though. Curious thought. save_franks_life.pl -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullo

[abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread Frank Nordberg
John Henckel, Laura Conrad, John Burton and Jon F McNamara has all come up with various good ideas for converting midis to sheet music. I might add Finale myself, a professional music typesetting program far more advanced than (and half as expensive as) Sibelius. Unfortunately, most of those idea