Why is MIDI the last resort?īefore editing or printing notation imported from MIDI, it is vital to understand its limitations. For example, the King Arthur music used in previous examples made pre-generated MIDI files available, and also provided the file “Arthur-MIDIs.ly” for re-creating them. See the GNU LilyPond Notation Reference – Creating MIDI files for specifics.Įxisting file collections may come with source files for generating MIDI. Instead, you need a \midi block in the music. There is no command to export a LilyPond file to MIDI (instead of the more common choice of typesetting it to PDF).
However, LilyPond files can be converted to audio, as MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files. If this capability is ever added, you should use it. As of November 2012, there is no way to export from LilyPond to MusicXML. However, the program we are currently concerned with is LilyPond. MusicXML is a good (but not perfect) way to migrate files between different programs. This changed in 2011: Sibelius 7 added native XML export, while MakeMusic (the company which makes Finale) purchased the Dolet software and made it freely available. If you really needed this capability, you could buy the Dolet plugin. If you are developing a notation package, why expend programmer time to make it easy for your customers to leave? On the other hand, adding import options gives you a competitive edge.Īs an example, for many years, Sibelius could import the MusicXML format, but not export. It is therefore not totally surprising that the export options are sparse.
The programmer has to study all possible aspects of the format, and decide how to translate them. The programming effort involved in writing an importer or exporter is immense. Even the two behemoths of the field – Sibelius and Finale – don’t make it easy to transfer. Transferring files between music editors has always been difficult.
Yes, but you may have to convert it to MIDI first, losing a lot of detail.
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