Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

[David Kastrup]

vic hug <address@hidden> writes:

> while beeing a newbie at both Sibelius and Lilypond, and already
> embracing the magical freedom superiority of the latest, i recently
> had to make a transcript from a manuscript, and for that i used
> Sibelius, because i needed to produce sibelius files. This way i could
> enter the text by typing on a midi keyboard and not really looking at
> the resulting score, while looking at the original. I think it would
> have been slower if i had needed to input it as text. So, there may
> still be cases where WYSIWYG is still more convenient.

Huh?  That has nothing to do with WYSIWYG.  It has to do with Midi
input.  And I certainly would prefer LilyPond in such a workflow since,
as opposed to WYSIWYG, I have a chance to see what actually ended up in
my score as opposed to what appears like that.

The currently available tools for Midi input into LilyPond leave a lot
to be desired, no question about that.  Try Rosegarden for a somewhat
better quantization with export into LilyPond.  But that's not exactly
an interactive workflow.

At some point of time, I plan to do an Emacs extension that works more
seriously than existing possibilities.  But we are not there yet.

> My point might be irrelevant, because i'm not an experienced user in
> any of those environments. Maybe there is way to do such a thing in
> LilyPond ? i know Frescobaldi exists and does maybe allow such a
> thing, but i'm on mac and don't know anything about compiling outside
> macports so... and i use lilypond tools, don't hink it does allow midi
> keyboard input.

There is a section in the manual about Midi input tools if I remember
correctly.  Most are not really fun to work with.  I'd guess that
something like Rosegarden is your best bet currently.

-- 
David Kastrup