Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

[David Kastrup]

searchfgold6789 <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I was looking for a way to create Lilypond files at a better speed than just
> typing them by hand. Someone suggested I use my computer keyboard as a MIDI
> keyboard. I didn't know Lilypond could do this, and looking online, I found
> vmpk, rumor, and lyqi and compiled the latest versions of each with success.
>
> Vmpk is the midi keyboard itself, and rumor and lyqi are the programs that
> take input from a midi device and convert it into lilypond syntax, right?
> Lyqi seems more advanced, somehow, than rumor... My question is, which
> should I use, and how should I use it?

It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer I arrived
at for myself was "don't bother".  The tools are not good enough right
now to save time.

-- 
David Kastrup