Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Joerg" == Joerg Anders <address@hidden> writes:

    >> >> The version I saved hadn't
    >> >> spelled the flats right, either, but I think I might have fixed that
    >> >> later.
    >> 
    Joerg> Could you please tell us what is misspelled ? Is it really
    Joerg> the "bes" instead "Bb" ?
    >> 
    >> No, it's ais instead of bes.
    >> 

    Joerg> 1.8.1 says "bes" .

Not when I run it.

    Joerg> And even if the MIDI file doesn't contain a Bb major key
    Joerg> signature. As soon as you change the key signature to Bb as
    Joerg> described at:

    Joerg>   
http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/doc/ch01s07.html#staff_props

    Joerg> NtEd moves the ais from 2nd gap to 3rd note line and changes the #
    Joerg> against b. And the LilyPond exporter calls this "bes".

Yes, but then I have to do that for each of the 5 staves.  And the
next MIDI file I look at has a key signature with no flats or sharps
(actually a D dorian, so there are lots of A#'s which should be Bb's).
So the workaround I've found is to change it to F major with the
"adjust notes" box checked, and then uncheck the "adjust notes" box
and change it back to C major. But doing this for each of the five
staves is starting to be more trouble than doing it in emacs.  After
all, what we really want is for midi2ly to "do the right thing" so
that we don't have to run a GUI for this purpose.

    Joerg> Perhaps I'll introduce an "English" button which places an
    Joerg> 'include "english.ly"' and uses the English note names.

That may be a good idea for some users, but I don't actually ever use
English note names.  Compared to all the other things I had to learn
to use lilypond, es and is were pretty easy.


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