Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-10-03 Thread searchfgold6789
Things are working, but using VMPK is kind of confusing. I am not sure what the velocity knob does or what the bend slider does. It's very difficult to use these tools because: - Lifting a key up even slightly causes an undesired rest to be put in - It seems to be impossible to play in a way

How to insert a trill without the tr symbol?

2013-10-03 Thread searchfgold6789
Hi, What I'm looking for is some way to implement \startTrillSpan and \stopTrillSpan in music without having the tr symbol: so just trill line. Is there any way to do that? I checked the internals reference but that was not helpful... - R. -- View this message in context:

Re: How to insert a trill without the tr symbol?

2013-10-03 Thread searchfgold6789
Thanks for your suggestion, but it's not working for me. I'm using version 2.16.2, maybe that's got something to do with it. I get the following errors and then several other syntax errors: error: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting SCM_FUNCTION or SCM_IDENTIFIER or SCM_TOKEN \set

Re: How to insert a trill without the tr symbol?

2013-10-03 Thread searchfgold6789
Thanks much, it is working now. I must remember to provide relevant info when asking for support... -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/How-to-insert-a-trill-without-the-tr-symbol-tp151797p151808.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-28 Thread searchfgold6789
Thank you very much, rumor is now working. I think that we have used more disk space, collectively, discussing whether or not MIDI input to Lilypond will save time, than the rumor source code takes up. And more time was probably spent in the discussion than will be saved by using (or not using)

How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-25 Thread searchfgold6789
Hello, I was looking for a way to create Lilypond files at a better speed than just typing them by hand. Someone suggested I use my computer keyboard as a MIDI keyboard. I didn't know Lilypond could do this, and looking online, I found vmpk, rumor, and lyqi and compiled the latest versions of

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-25 Thread searchfgold6789
Thanks for the link. I am still having trouble getting vmpk and the jedit plugin to connect. I open vmpk, open jedit to a blank document, and set the jedit plugin's language to English. However, I am not sure how to proceed from there... pressing keys in vmpk doesn't do anything. The only MIDI