Re: [Denemo-devel] Import Midi

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 15:23 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> Is there a process for importing (simple) midi files into denemo?
There are two main systems in Denemo. The one that require no effort is
the un-guided one, I presume you tried that with no joy?
The other does have a demo on vimeo.com (you really have to know what
the music looks like that you are trying to import). I don't think any
method would turn a bunch of MIDI events captured from a human
performance into usable music notation, you would be better using the
audio import thing (though I think that may be not possible on windows
and anyway see below)
> There appears to be something of the sort, but I cannot understand how 
> the messages relate to importing a file.
> I can get the stuff I want in ABC or Noteworthy format too, and don't 
> know whether either of them would be better.

this implies that the music you want is already in notation form - MIDI
contains less information than that and so is a bad way to go. Is there
an ABC->lilypond or NWC->lilypond? or to musicXML?

> I am reluctant to type in notes if I don't have to!

I know the feeling - do you have a MIDI keyboard (and the keyboard
skills to make it useful)?

Richard