>>>>> "Grammostola" == Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammost...@gmail.com> writes:
Grammostola> David Raleigh Arnold wrote: >>> >> Again, why not get in touch with the developer(s) of midge? The >> syntax is completely different, but it is *text-based* and GNU. It >> is dedicated to midi, not notation. Why not find a way to use >> their work, at worst by means of a translation script? Regards, >> daveA >> I had a look at midge. The main thing it adds that Lilypond doesn't have, is much greater control over individual notes. You can add bends (so presumably could implement a portamento or glissando, although it appears to be limited to 4 semitones, which is too small for most of the music I deal with); you can control attack and decay, and effects such as reverb. chorus and pan. Musical stuff (articulations, ornaments, dynamics, tempo variations such as rit. or stringendo, etc., etc) has to be interpreted and written explicitly in expanded form into the midge source. While midge could be used as an intermediate format for MIDI output, I can't see at present what it would gain for us --- the level of abstraction over a standard binary MIDI file is very small. -- Dr Peter Chubb www.nicta.com.au peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia From Imagination to Impact Imagining the (ICT) Future _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user