Denemo uses LilyPond which generates beautiful sheet music to the highest. Is there really no alternative to the above for what I need to do? And if not, is there any example I can use as a reference? For instance mididings requires programming scripts in Python, a language I don't know, and I'd rather not study it just for this. or played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone. Someone else mentioned qmidiroute as well, which does have a GUI and seems easier with its rules, but also seems limited to two output ports: either I'm missing a way to change that, or that would mean chaining more instantes in a tree topology if you have more than two instruments. Lilypond uses these GM names, which makes Lilypond a somewhat GM compatible source. Is there any easy way to have Lilypond produce the B-flat Clarinet staff when the notes are written in the target sound (concert pitch) The \transposition pitch command seems to be for when you have written for the instrument and you want the midi output to be correct. If LilyPond encounters any errors or warnings they will be displayed in the LilyPond Log at the bottom of the screen. That said, they seem to be very low level, and from a quick glance also apparently have a very high learning curve for what seems to be a simple need (I guess I'm probably making it easier than it really is, MIDI-wise). Then click the Lily toolbar button or press Ctrl M. Searching around on this forum and the Internet in general, I did find a couple of old applications that seem to be able to make this possible, namely midish and mididings. Apparently all you can do out of the box is connecting ports in their entirety, which doesn't have the finer-grained flexibility I need in this context. I thought this was a relatively trivial requirement, but it looks like it's not. If not an intermediary, I'd be happy even with a regular MIDI player/sequencer that can configure the instrument mappings, since Lilypond generates a MIDI file anyway. Since there's only a single MIDI output I can configure, this means I need an intermediary that can "split" the incoming MIDI messages to different recipients: e.g., send instrument A to ZynAddSubFx, instrument B and C to QSynth, instrument D to a VST, and so on. Since what I do in Ardour is typically associate different instruments/tracks to different renderers, I'd love to do the same while writing as well, for a "better" and a bit more realistic preview. This is nice for a preview, but I'd like to get more done here, since most of the times the corrections I have to make are related to how different the preview is from the end result. At the moment, in Frescobaldi I can only configure a single MIDI output, which I usually set to a QSynth instance with the default Fluidsynth soundfont for rendering. The reason why I don't do any MIDI editing in Ardour (apart from very minor tweaks) is that I really don't like how MIDI is handled there: this makes the process a bit of a pain, because if it turns out I have to do some major correction, this means going back to Frescobaldi, regenerate the MIDI, import again and replace the notes in the tracks I imported previously. Eventually, when the bulk of the writing is done, I import the resulting MIDI file in Ardour, and then do everything else there: assigning the right instrument via a SF2/SFZ/whatever plugin, adding real recorded instruments, and so on. Just to give some context, as anticipated I usually write all my music in Lilypond with Frescobaldi, which I found to be quite faster than using other more visual editors. The default MIDI instrument equalizer can be replaced by setting the instrumentEqualizer a user-defined Scheme procedure that uses a MIDI instrument name. Please let me know if this should be moved elsewhere. 0.Not sure if my question belongs here or to the "Recorders
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