Re: [abcusers] Voice limit on abc2midi?

2001-10-02 Thread James Allwright
The problem here is that channel 10 in General MIDI is reserved for percussion instruments as someone has pointed out. You may be able to re-program it to be a different instrument with %%MIDI program 10 instrument Alternatively, you can explicitly select channels for voices from voice 10

Re: [abcusers] Steganography

2001-10-02 Thread Paulo Eleuterio Tiburcio
Jack Campin escreveu: I seem to remember something closer to what you want in a story about a woman singing a lullaby to her child in such a way as to warn her lover that her husband was around; she emphasized certain words in the lullaby so as to spell out a message meaning go away. Tello

Re: [abcusers] Voice limit on abc2midi?

2001-10-02 Thread Laurie Griffiths
Hm! Muse has voice limit of 8 - maybe I should make it more. Why have a limit at all? ...Dynamic allocation is the answer! Because it was easier to implement. Every feature has a cost in time and effort. So far no customer has actually complained about the limit and this is the first time

[abcusers] (Correction) ANNOUNCE: abcpp, an ABC preprocessor/converter

2001-10-02 Thread Guido Gonzato
Hello, following the announcement of abcpp, there you are its home page: http://ibogeo.df.unibo.it/guido/abc.html which I forgot to mention in my previous message... Enjoy, Guido =8-) -- Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. ggonza at tin dot it - Linux system

[abcusers] (Correction) ANNOUNCE: JedABC

2001-10-02 Thread Guido Gonzato
Hello, following the announcement of JedABC, there you are its home page: http://ibogeo.df.unibo.it/guido/jed.html which I forgot to mention in my previous message... Enjoy, Guido =8-) -- Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. ggonza at tin dot it - Linux system manager Universita' di Verona,

Re: [abcusers] two hand notation examples

2001-10-02 Thread Frank Carmickle
Well let me toss some examples your way and see if anyone can help me. I didn't see the kind of notation I am looking for. X:1 T:foo C:bar L:1/4 M:3/4 K:d V:RH clef=treble V:LH clef=bass [V:RH] za-[ad,] [V:LH] D-[DA]-[DAf] Although this is readable it is not correct. the D in the left hand

Re: [abcusers] two hand notation examples

2001-10-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: I don't see chopsticks there. I'm sure that used to be on Musica Viva. It is, but not as a piano arrangement. That is, there is a piano arrangement too at Musica Viva, but not in ABC format, I mean... Oh well, here it is. Don't ask me who transcribed it, I'm sworn to

Re: [abcusers] two hand notation examples

2001-10-02 Thread James Allwright
On Tue 02 Oct 2001 at 09:49AM -0400, Frank Carmickle wrote: Well let me toss some examples your way and see if anyone can help me. I didn't see the kind of notation I am looking for. X:1 T:foo C:bar L:1/4 M:3/4 K:d V:RH clef=treble V:LH clef=bass [V:RH] za-[ad,] [V:LH]

Re: [abcusers] two hand notation examples

2001-10-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Frank == Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see chopsticks there. I'm sure that used to be on Musica Viva. Frank It is, but not as a piano arrangement. That is, there is a piano Frank arrangement too at Musica Viva, but not in ABC format, I mean... I never

[abcusers] Unfamiliar Notation

2001-10-02 Thread Brendan Van Horn
Greetings! I came across a tune in ABC format that had some notation I can't find any information about. Here is the tune in question: X:21 T:Manhattan Air R:slow air C:Robert Eckert H:In memmory of the victims of the terrorist attacks on the USA on September 11th, 2001. H:--- H:In memmory of

Re: [abcusers] two hand notation examples

2001-10-02 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, James Allwright wrote: [V:RH] za-[ad,] [V:LH] D-[DA]-[DAf] Although this is readable it is not correct. the D in the left hand should be D3 not D-D-D. So something like this maybe? Inventing a way of writing abc so that you see D3 instead of D-D-D would be

Re: [abcusers] two hand notation examples

2001-10-02 Thread Frank Carmickle
I'm not convinced of this. I like abc. I think it is an easier way of me writing music then in braille notation. Braille notation does allow piano and guitar notation by using chars that represent intervals. I am interested in expanding the spec to allow for such things. Anyone else? On

Re: [abcusers] Unfamiliar Notation

2001-10-02 Thread Frank Nordberg
Brendan Van Horn wrote: Greetings! I came across a tune in ABC format that had some notation I can't find any information about. Here is the tune in question: ... L[A3E3] and L[c2G2] are the parts that I am trying to figure out. What does this do? Thanks! The brackets means

Re: [abcusers] two hand notation examples

2001-10-02 Thread Phil Taylor
It is certainly possible for abc to represent keyboard music. I have transcribed the entire Goldberg Variations using BarFly. It plays perfectly, but the problem is that some of the pieces require as many as five voices to represent it adequately, and merging those five voices correctly onto