[CM] CM+Fomus to notate MIDI sequence with VSL keyswitches?

[Bret Battey]

Thanks, David

Actually, I¹ve previously written MAX/MSP code to write FOMUS scores (.txt)
for a Finale target, so I¹m familiar with the basic mechanics (and
limitations). Thanks for the offer though!

One challenge with translating the VSL keyswitches is handling legatos.
After identifying a legato keyswitch, one would start a Fomus slur on the
following note. The instrument remains in legato until some other
articulation is specified. For writing the Fomus score, then, after
identifying a new keyswitch, one would then have to back up to the previous
Fomus score note to add an end-of-slur attribute.  I couldn¹t handle this at
all in the quick and dirty realtime MAX/MSP version I did. Potentially will
be able to with CM assuming I can back up to a previous score objects easily
(been a long time since I tried that in CM ‹ took quite a bit of
head-scratching back then).

(Or, again, might just be faster to correct the slurs by hand in Finale!)

-=Bret


On 29/07/2010 13:15, "David Psenicka" <dpsenick at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 13:38 -0500, Heinrich Taube wrote:
>> 
>> you can write midi files, then import and notate via fomus
> fomus's MIDI import is pretty basic at the moment--it reads in note events and
> routes them to parts based on MIDI program changes but doesn't try to do
> anything more complicated than that (it has no idea what VSL switches are).
> 
>> 
>> alternately, you can just send data to fomus and tell it to write
>> both .xml and .midi files. if im wrong about this i hope someone
>> (david) corrects me.
>> 
>> ill put together a demo, in the mean time you can download cm and
>> install fomus, thats all you need.
>> 
> if you let me know what score markings you're interested in, i can provide a
> few examples of how to get those into Finale (if it's possible...  most basic
> score markings are possible, a few things like chord tremelos and harmonics
> are problematic in xml).  i haven't worked with VSL keyswitches so i'm not
> sure how to interpret those.
> 
> also, i should finally get another alpha/rc release out soon, which will have
> xml bug fixes.
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Bret Battey wrote:
>> 
>>> >
>>> > I'm wondering if I'm lucky enough that someone else out there has
>>> > created some CM code that might be readily adapted to deal with this
>>> > challenge:
>>> >
>>> > MIDI sequence -> CM -> Fomus -> MusicXML -> Finale
>>> >
>>> > Where the MIDI sequence contains numerous tracks. Some of those
>>> > tracks contain keyswitches and expression controls for Vienna
>>> > Symphonic Library, and those need to be represented as the
>>> > appropriate score markings.
>>> >
>>> > (Otherwise, might just be faster for me to do the notation work
>>> > manually rather than write the code to do the above conversion.)
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > -=Bret
>>> >
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