Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >>> I'm playing in a band and we are trying to write down our songs in a >>> simple way which the whole band would understand. I'm not talking >>> necessarily about musical notation, but more about a simple tab-like >>> representation of parts which every instrument plays. >>> >> Any sequencing program with a piano-roll view, which is almost any >> sequencing programs. >> > > Thanks. > > We use Cubase for recording, which is a kind of a piano-roll program. > However, it's way too complicated to write simple verbal comments > there, which for me would me much more important than musical > notation. And it doesn't work well with Hebrew. > > Please correct me if i'm wrong, but as far as i understand MIDI is > good mostly for describing notes and instruments for the computer, > while i'm talking about something that explains synchronization of > music and lyrics for people in human language. The MIDI file format supports text meta events. The spec says it's supposed to support ASCII, so even a sequencer that supports that meta event may not help you with Hebrew. > MIDI is not intended at > defining concepts such as "intro" and "bridge" and the "feel" of every > part of the song. > Right. However, once you have something in cubase, you can export it to MIDI and use perl to export it to XML. > >> If you're specifically looking for perl solutions there are quite a few >> modules that convert between MIDI and text, and between MIDI and XML >> representations: >> > > It doesn't have to be Perl. I just thought of Perl, because the tool > i'm looking for is much more about text than it is about music, and > Perl is good with text processing. > > I guess that what i'm looking for is much more in the area of DocBook > or LaTeX than it is in the area of MIDI. The problem is that i don't > know any of them well enough. >
Maybe a karaoke program. They're supposed to synch text and music. > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
