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Director Musices with Lilypond ``Howto''
- Download Director Musices from http://www.speech.kth.se/music/performance/download/dm-download.html
- Follow the instructions in README.txt about
downloading CMU Lisp and editing the
make-dm1-cmulisp.lsp file
- Do lisp -load
/path/to/dm/lib/make-dm1-cmulisp.lsp
(substituting /path/to/dm appropriately)
- When the menu is displayed, select option 2 and
type in the full pathname of Lilypond's MIDI
output (WITHOUT putting quotes around it, contrary
to what the prompt seems to suggest)
- Select option 3 and type
/path/to/dm/rulepalettes/default.pal
(substituting /path/to/dm appropriately)
- Select option 7 or 8 and type a pathname for
the output MIDI file
- Select q, and type (quit) at the
Lisp prompt
An "expect" script could be used as a quick way of
automating this, or you could go into the Lisp internals.
You can then use my Python
hack to add pan and reverb to Director Musices' output
if your version of Director Musices doesn't implement it
already.
Note that Director Musices may delete any
expression information that Lilypond itself has
added, so it is not advisable for use on pieces
where Lilypond has many dynamic marks to play.
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