Hi, I've been on a quest for about a month to find a working MIDI sequencer for my RedHat 7.2 box with a 2.4.16 kernel and 0.5 or 0.9 ALSA drivers. I've tried literally everything out there (I think), jazz++, tse3 stuff (including NoteEdit), MusE, the latest Rosegarden, and so on. I've even tried running Cakewalk programs using Wine.
Anyways, I've been running LilyPond 1.5.28 for a few days, and as crazy as this may sound, this is one of the most stable and usable MIDI sequencers available for a Linux platform. I've been able to create multi-instrument -- including drums -- MIDI files, integrate portions of other MIDI files using midi2ly, etc. The text mode entry using vi is, for me, much easier and faster than the various mostly-broken GUI sequencers out there. (I record MIDI sequences using jazz++ as this is one of the few things it seems to be able to do reliably.) However I've run into a problem with the drums support in lilypond. When I: \include "drumpitch-init.ly" I appear to lose the previous settings for \pitchnames, which makes things like: Key = \notes \key c \major ...blow up on the letter 'c'. My hack was to create a new pitchnames file that, in one big \pitchames setting, includes all of drumpitch-init.ly as well as everything in english.ly. I still haven't figured out how to use this kludge to render the drum notes as they should be in the paper output (I get lisp-y type errors when I try various things, and I haven't written any lisp in 18 years). If someone knows a way to have the following two lines in a .ly file: \include "drumpitch-init.ly" Key = \notes \key c \major ...I'd be muchly interested. Thanks, Stacey Campbell http://www.pigtailproductions.com/stacey/ _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
