Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: This is F*G great! Especially the Bach BWV 1006 - I could have sworn it really was a kid playing. http://percival-music.ca/audio/bwv-1006_1.wav.mp3 To my ears, the rhythm sounded eerily exact - don't kids slow

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-07 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi Graham, Vivi is WAY COOL. I really like the way you start with a physical model of the instrument. I was also interested in the training aspect, as it links in with Deborah de Graaff's work here on how eminent musicians practice and learn new pieces. See

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:53:16AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi Graham, Vivi is WAY COOL. I really like the way you start with a physical model of the instrument. Thanks! Yes, although software like Vocaloid is neat (and the user community is incredible!), I always feel a bit let down

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-06 Thread Mike Blackstock
This is F*G great! Especially the Bach BWV 1006 - I could have sworn it really was a kid playing. http://percival-music.ca/audio/bwv-1006_1.wav.mp3 On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.cawrote: Hi all, My PhD research has swept me into the direction of

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/3/5 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:54:31AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/3/4 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Well, playing on a $1000 (or even $1,000,000) violin is just a matter of getting a recording of somebody tapping on such an

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 12:01:23AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/3/3 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca:  \time 4 = 72 Meanwhile, there is a mistake in the example code (in your mail and on the website) - there should be \tempo 4 = 96 instead of \time 4 = 72. Oops! Thanks, fixed.

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:50:37PM -0500, Michael Ellis wrote: I've been thinking for a while about broaching the subject of LilyPond's midi output on this forum -- I feel that this is one area where Lily is rather behind the curve compared to her commercial sisters. I wonder if some of your

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Michael Ellis
Thanks Graham, I just downloaded and looked at Dr. Chubb's script. It looks nicely coded and seems to address a number of issues that bother me about LilyPond's midi output. Cheers, Mike On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/3/4 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Thanks for sharing this! I'm looking forward to hearing Vivi perform on a $1000 violin with a skill of a violinist with 5 years of experience :) Well, playing on a $1000 (or even $1,000,000) violin is just a matter of getting a recording

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:54:31AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/3/4 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Well, playing on a $1000 (or even $1,000,000) violin is just a matter of getting a recording of somebody tapping on such an instrument.  Such recordings (I only need 12

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Ellis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Hi all, My PhD research has swept me into the direction of automatic music performance. �In particular, generating realistic-sounding audio from sheet music. Thanks for sharing this, Graham. Vivi seems like nice

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-03 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/3/3 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: Hi all, My PhD research has swept me into the direction of automatic music performance.  In particular, generating realistic-sounding audio from sheet music.  In particular, going from a .ly file with a single staff of violin music to a wav

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