Funny that someone else is finally asking about this... I was quite
interested in generating printable scores from MIDI files myself, and
last year I tried fooling around with ways to do this _without_ having
to write another converter. I may still need to - or at least do an
update - but these conversions get rather complex and I don't have all
eternity to play with writing converters...
Anyway, my idea was this. There's a utility called Midi2Tex, which
doesn't convert to MusiXTeX, but does convert to MusiCTeX... so I did
this:
1) Midi->MusicTeX via Midi2Tex
2) MusicTeX->DVI via tex \&musictex
3) DVI->PS via dvips
And then you can just print the postscript file. I had a lot of trouble
setting up my TeTeX/MusiCTeX environment/fonts, etc, so I made a few
notes along the way.... my results? Some simple scores worked quite
well. Others - like Schubert Impromputs - had some problems where the
either the conversion to MusicTeX or DVI - simply did not work (errors).
I thought it was something "do-able" though, so I had the idea of
starting from scratch on a server, and setting up a web interface for a
database of lots of classical scores already in MIDI format. Then you
can just have the server go about and process the MIDI file on the
backend and convert it to a printable .ps (postscript) file. Only
problem: No server available to me, and I had to wipe out my own Linux
partition for various reasons. Still not back yet. BUT - just last
week my friend put a Linux server on the Net that may be available for
this purpose, so if anyone is interested, I can keep the list abreast of
my progress because I plan to go try it again now that I have a stable,
centralized environment to do it in.
Thoughts, suggestions, etc? I know, I know - it doesn't work with
MusiXTeX, which will upset most of you, but what can I do... if any of
you want to write a MIDI->MusiXTeX converter, be my guest. :)
Cheers,
~Chris
PS - FYI, I never got into writing MusiC/X TeX files - always seemed too
cumbersome. But I stay on the list b/c of my ideas about converting
Midi->TeX and wanted to draw any info from this list that I could.
--
Chris De Angelis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>
> On Monday, 21 February 2000, Erwin Achermann writes:
>
> > is anybody aware of a easy way to go the other way round? That is: I
> > have a midi file and would like to get a MusixTeX version of it.
>
> There's midi2ly, that creates LilyPond input from MIDI...
> It might not be too hard to adapt that for pmx, or even,
> to write ly2pmx converter. Don't know too much about pmx.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jan.
>
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