Re: [Help-gnu-music] Lilypond error

[Helgi Örn]

Thank you David for your interesting input.

I have earlyer been surfing all over the net looking for everything on sound &
musik in Linux, and I've understood that there are a lot of things going on.
But all my attempts to run some of the applications that were of interest for
me were useless, everything just crashed and there was never any midi. Now it
seems like Lilypond and Timidity are at least properly installed, I just have
to figure out how to use these things. I use the keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius
so keyboarding doesn't frighten me, and I'm in love with the monster Emacs.
And for the first time I got MIDI running with at least one MIDI-player, the
others move as if playing but don't make any sound, guess it's just a matter of
some minor tweaking (after finding out what the problem is..:o).

Greetings,
Helgi Örn

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Boersma <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Helgi,
> 
> > I have never been able to find out what music-software to use in Linux,
> > I am a musician and a composer,
> 
> At http://www.linuxsound.at/ you may find quite a lot of linux music
> software. Some of it is very very good, some of it is still in
> development. Among it is a list of notation software, with Lily and others
> like 'Mup', 'Brahms' and 'Rosegarden'. I would like to see an independent
> review article about them. At the Mup site they have a comparison between
> Lily and Mup but, well, I do not consider that 'independent'. I did not go
> deep into Mup yet (not very deep into Lily either), but from the first
> views of it it seems to me that there is quite some difference in
> functionality which is not mentioned in the Mup article. Just to mention
> one thing.
> But well, this starts to deviate from the mailing list subject. 
> 
> [...]
> > Do you write the music in an editor or do you do that in Lilypond?
> 
> As Mats already mentioned in the meantime: in your favorite text editor. 
> Its output must be plain ASCII text.
> 
> And by the way: I did not try it myself yet, but there is also a tool to
> convert midi-file to a lilyfile, which might be handy if you have a
> keyboard with midi-output connected to your linuxbox. It saves some typing
> of notes. You still have to edit the lily file in order to correct
> mistakes, combine parts, add lyrics, add other musical marks, whatever you
> like.
> All in a text editor. Very, very different from the Sibelius style of
> working. See elsewhere for discussions on the need of GUIs (graphical user
> interfaces) in music typesetting.
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> David.
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