Re: midi2ly doesn't respect the --key

[Graham Percival]

yota moteuchi wrote:
> When I try to extract a piece from a midi file which is in f major (1 
> flat) I do
>
> midi2ly --key=-1 "myfile.mid"
>
> the resulting file have indeed a nice \key f \major printed on top but
> all the 'bes' are noted as 'ais'
> The problem being that a text replacement mess up the relative notation
>
> e ais c => a bes c (with one octave shift)

I'm not surprised; MIDI files only specifies the pitch number, not the 
actual note (i.e. bes and ais are both note 58).  midi2ly is not 
intelligent enough to pick notes out of the same key.  This is not a 
bug; it is a missing feature.  I doubt that this will ever be 
implemented; I think the best way to improve our importing abilities is 
to work on the musicxml importing.

Sorry,
- Graham