(Music Instrument Digital Interface) is a standard for digital
instruments: it specifies cabling, a serial protocol and a file format.
+The MIDI file format is a de facto standard format for exporting music
+from other programs, so this capability may come in useful when you want
+to import files from a program that has no converter for its native
+format.
+
It is possible to record a MIDI file using a digital keyboard, and then
convert it to @file{.ly}. However, human players can not rhythmically
exact enough to make a MIDI to .ly conversion trivial. midi2ly tries to
Hackers who know about signal processing are invited to write a more
robust midi2ly.
-MIDI is also a de facto standard format for exporting music from other
-programs, so this capability may come in useful when you want to import
-files from a program that has no converter for its native format.
-
@subsection Invoking midi2ly
@example
@section pmx2ly
PMX is a Musixtex preprocessor written by Don Simons, see
-@uref{http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/musixtex/software/pmx/}.
+@uref{http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/Misc/Music/musixtex/software/pmx/}.
Report bugs to @email{bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org}.
@node musedata2ly
@section musedata2ly
- Musedata (@uref{http://www.musedata.org/}) is an electronic library of
+Musedata (@uref{http://www.musedata.org/}) is an electronic library of
classical music scores, currently comprising about 800 composition
dating from 1700 to 1825. The music is encoded in so-called Musedata
format
(@uref{http://www.ccarh.org/publications/books/beyondmidi/online/musedata}).
musedata2ly converts a set of musedata files to one .ly file, and will
-include a \header field if a .ref file is supplied
+include a @code{\header} field if a @file{.ref} file is supplied
@subsection Invoking musedata2ly