On 17 Jul 2009, at 16:30, Alex | Brascolor wrote:
my name is alex, and i am from brazil, i would like to know if i can
use lilypond to learn piano music, sort off: i hit a key on my
digital piano
and the program show me where i am hiting, in this way i can load a
song
into lilypond and start learning.
To get the data into the keyboard, it needs to be a "keyboard
controller", which nowadays normally means having a USB connection
supporting the MIDI-standard. But it is perfectly possible to use
other devices to produce sounds directly, see for example <http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
>, which also support MIDI-devices.
Then LilyPond is a typesetting program. I'm not sure it supports USB
MIDI-devices (yet), it is possible with some other typesetting
programs. But if you could, the result would be sheet music. It can
produce a MIDI-output, but it is a bit roundabout.
But if you want to play and record, making loops etc., in a more
direct fashion, then you need what traditionally is called a
sequencer. There are play-along programs like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-in-a-Box
and the links here may have more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_software
Hans
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