solfege to notes software?

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

Frederico,

I am very interested in this question, too.

In theory, you could do the following:

Get a DAW like Logic that does audio => midi conversion
    1. Record your singing to an audio track in your DAW

    2. Convert the audio to midi.  There are settings or features to figure out the tempo, and quantize rhythmic values (specifying the smallest rhythmical unit, so you don't end up with random 32nd and 64th note values for things you sang with rhythmic embellishment.)

    3. Export a midi file

    4. Then, you can theoretically convert that midi file in to lilypond using midi2ly

I was hoping someone could comment on the status of midi2ly, since I am still unable to use it on mac OSX 10.8.5 / Lilypond 2.18.2 with a "wrong architecture" error:

$ midi2ly -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/midi2ly", line 54, in <module>
    import midi
ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lilypond/current/python/midi.so, 2): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lilypond/current/python/midi.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

But, I am under the impression that midi2ly does actually work on non-mac platforms, or older mac platforms.

Regarding spending money, Logic costs about $200.  There are lots of other DAWs out there that do audio recording and audio => midi conversion.  Not sure of any that are free or cheap, but I wouldn't doubt if you could find one.

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Subject: [OT] solfege to notes software?
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Hi all

this is a bit off-topic, as it's not closely related to LilyPond.
I'm trying to imagine any possible way to avoid the boring part of
typesetting, i.e. entering notes and durations.

Do you know any application which can create music (in lilypond format)
from a real person who solfeges a piece? It could  be interesting for
people not comfortable with piano keyboard and not willing to spend
money for a MIDI keyboard.

Do you think that it could work?
Obviously, pitches would not be recognizable but the program should be
able to:

- recognize the note names, possibly following the key signature
specified at the beginning
- set the right durations, by setting a tempo click to follow during
the solfege

I guess that dotted durations would be hard to catch by a software:

c4. d8 -> Do - o_Re

HTH,

David Elaine Alt

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