[linux-audio-user] MIDI notation editor

From: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 22:24:46 EEST

Hi everybody! First of all, a little bit of

<background>
Every time I go back to my hometown (as I'm studying in another city), I
use to rehearse (and sometimes play) with a Big Band there. Open to
everyone, but composed mostly of folks between 14 to 30 years old (and
one of more than 80), it also plays non-jazz songs, as Maxwell Smart's
one.
</background>

<my wish>
I would like to arrange another one for them, starting from a midi file.
In my m$ era, I used to do it with encore. Now, as a GNU/Linux user, I
would like to do it with my beloved OS :-), printing the final score
with lilypond.
</my wish>

<what I have tried>
First of all, I tried with Rosegarden-4 0.9.6 (this one and all apps
shipped with Debian Sarge in December). I learned how to start timidity
so as to use it with Rosegarden (no MIDI cappable soundcard here, just
the VIA 8235), imported the midi, and played it.
When I tried to start the arrangement, I became a little confused with
Rosegarden's Note Editor (well, I'm switching from another program, I
think it's normal). But it also happens that I'm a memeber of the
spanish Rosegarden's Manual translation team. And I read (and traslated
:-) ) that RG was thinked more as a sequencer than a music notation
editor.
OK then, I asked in Lau-es for a notation editor and they told me about
NoteEdit. Once apt-getted NE 2.5.3 from my DVDs set (no broadband at
home), I found that it can't import midi files, just musicXMLs.
Well, no problem, I thought, I re-opened RG, imported the midi an
exported it to musicXML. Once again in NE, the final score doesn't look
OK (for example, the 4/3 notes appear as rests and quarters).
OK, perhaps I am missing something.
</what I have tried>

<"OK. What the... do you want?">
Comments, suggestions, etc. are more than welcome.
If any of you does something like this (preparing scores for other
musicians), the better. And if any of you happens to have switched from
encore, well, then I'm a lucky guy :-)
</"OK. What the... do you want?">

Cheers, Damian.-

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Buenos Aires. De una foto de Mario Gallo.
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