Frank Nordberg wrote: > Hello, I did some converting a while ago to change finale files to abc. midi2abc was used for this, not on my machine, at a friends. To coope with the problem of positioning barlines (some of te music had changing rhythms) we made midi2abc seeing the files as being in, I think it was 4/2 time so there were not to many barlines to remove - later on I learned to remove all barlines from the abc2midi output - what I got was a quite usefull sequence of letters just that all dotted notes were ill. Also a problem was the mix of keys I had in the original files, or to be precise the ill output this caused in midi2abc. I learned to fix these things with the find and replace function (only usefull if you have big files with a constant note lenght value). So I had to look up the beginn of a new tune, identify the key and the anacrusis, insert all barlines and repeats by hand, supplement all the headers. Some important things: be sure to use te right L: value. Make sure all tunes in one midi source are in one key. All this only works with stupid machine generated midi. Iam not sure how much faster I was using midi2abc than writing it simply again. But I think it was a bit faster.
Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria > John Chambers wrote: (...) > 2. Use a direct midi to abc midi converter. As far as I know midi2abc is > the only one available although I've heard rumours of others as well. > abc2midi does a reasonably good job as long as the midi input is "clean" > (that is no performance data such as time shifting etc) the music isn't > in triple time and there are no dotted rhythms. > Creating optimal input files for abc2midi requires some experimenting > and unconventional solutions, though. > > In any case you can just forget all about batch processing. You will > need some manual editing at some stage no matter how you do it. > > Frank Nordberg > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
