Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 06:57:22AM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Which brings me to another question: why a version of midi2ly is packaged with lilypond and still I have to use convert-ly ? Shouldn't always midi2ly (and the other xxx2ly converters) be made compatible with the lilypond

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Graham Frankly, I think we should just remove every *2ly convert Graham apart from musicXML2ly. Nobody wants to work on them, so Graham they just get gradually more and more broken over time. I might support that if we were

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 10:45, Graham Percival wrote: Frankly, I think we should just remove every *2ly convert apart from musicXML2ly. Nobody wants to work on them, so they just get gradually more and more broken over time. I think they should be there for the hope of somebody coming by in the

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 13:08, Laura Conrad wrote: I might support that if we were setting the example by having an ly2musicXML, but we aren't. Normally one only provide converters to ones own source code format, so people get stuck with it: a form of competition limiting. Hans

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 191e48a7-f2c8-41cf-8b6e-b6ebec40d...@math.su.se, Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se writes On 28 Mar 2009, at 13:08, Laura Conrad wrote: I might support that if we were setting the example by having an ly2musicXML, but we aren't. Normally one only provide converters to ones own source

Using midi2ly

2009-03-27 Thread Hans Aberg
The typeset output looks weird when applying midi2ly (and convert-ly) of LilyPond 2.12.2 to: http://users.telenet.be/scottischkilt2/Midi/midi/72ndhighfare.mid Is it fixable? Hans Aberg ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:09:01PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote: The typeset output looks weird when applying midi2ly (and convert-ly) of LilyPond 2.12.2 to: http://users.telenet.be/scottischkilt2/Midi/midi/72ndhighfare.mid Which brings me to another question: why a version of midi2ly is

Re: getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I'm afraid that the best available documentation is the source code. :-( The impression I've got from the mailing list is that most people who have tried to use midi2ly for any serious purpose have soon realized that it's just as quick to enter the .ly file directly. Especially considering the

getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Hi, I'm managing converting a *.midi to a *-midi.ly *-midi is stored in C:\...\Lilypond\usr\bin. It contains a lot of triplets (f8 g a) Purpose is: avoid manualy modifying the *-midi.ly code to get all of the triplets! No answer found in the forums about the use of convert-ly Environment:

Re: getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Don't have too high expectations on what midi2ly can do with the rhythm. As far as I know, it will only work reasonably well with MIDI files generated from other notation programs. /Mats Ledocq-Boccart wrote: Hi, I'm managing converting a *.midi to a *-midi.ly *-midi is stored in

Re: getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Thanks Mats! I have made some trials with various options settings: and I got something I could start with making manual corrections. I do not understand the effect of options like: --explicit-duration --start-quant=DURI did not see much effect --duration-quant=DUR With DUR=16 I get

Re: getting tuplets using midi2ly

2008-02-18 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Hi, Where can I find explanations about the effect of the options of midi2ly.py? What is quantize? What is the effect of explicit durations? etc... I mean I would like to understand the link between the options and its action on the structure of a midi file. As yet I feel to cut and try

On using midi2ly

2004-07-01 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: Some suggestions for the docs on midi2ly: 1) The utility will work as advertised *if* you use Type 1 MIDI files. Type 0 files put all data into a single track, so unless you're rendering monophonic music you probably want to be using Type 1 files. 2) Multiple tracks in a