LilyPond Reviews and Details

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• Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

  That was pretty great, Many times when someone does not like something they are unable to unable to articulate why. That video is a master class in how to critique a thing. I couldn't compose my way out of a wet bag, but I wonder if at some level of complexity the job would be better served by a markup language? https://lilypond.org I know for complex documents, I start to really despise the word processor, Much... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns

  (BTW reminds me of the equally wonderful lylipond https://lilypond.org/). - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)

  I use Git with Lilypond[1], text-based music notation software: https://lilypond.org/ It's akin to working in LaTeX, in that there's a source file which is what gets tracked, while the PDF output is untracked. And it's great because this is real source code and the Git diffs and commits are meaningful, unlike working in binary formats. I feel fairly confident that decades from now my work will be recoverable, a... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• MIDI Editor

  Why use this when you could just use Lilypond, which is free, open source, and has a legacy in TeX: https://lilypond.org. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures

  > since its width was set to 0 Is this totally necessary? It might be. I don't know much about font programming. If the values have to be hard-coded. If you can get me a contact info, I could send you the master list of chords.. Maybe you could use that. > I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org Lilypond is a music engraving system. That... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures

  So I need to pack the font itself with both the A and the Am6 ligatures… I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Make measure width smaller?

  At lilypond.org I found some tips, but they all were for the complete score. I don't want my score to be compressed or have smaller notes as I'm rewriting the music because the original notes are to small for me. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns

  As far as open-source software is concerned, you can use Lilypond [1]. Fully text-based transcription. You can edit, insert, splice, overwrite, etc. To your heart's content in your favorite text editor and get a high-quality engraving as output. [1] https://lilypond.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• MuseScore 4.1 is now available

  For the intrepid, especially those annoyed with the purported input-sluggishness of musescore et al, an interesting text-based alternative is LilyPond https://lilypond.org/ My dad wrote an opera using LilyPond in vim, though I believe these days he's actually doing more with supercollider, which skips sheetmusic and goes right to sounds: https://supercollider.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Any good, free sheet music making software?

  I've been meaning to play around with lilypond.org. It's text-based, which makes it easily scriptable, and I have some ideas... But that's just for niche things. Source: over 3 years ago

• The Sourdough Framework

  Have I got a thrill for you! https://www.mutopiaproject.org https://lilypond.org https://www.hacklily.org ...it really helped me understand why "$SCORE = ( $MELODY + $BASS )" was sometimes superior to viewing sheet music as a "wall of notes and chords". You have to "play the wall" as it comes at you, but mentally, thinking of it as "melody goes la la la, bass goes boom bang boom" helps to provide context to what... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• What are some languages based on Scheme?

  LilyPond musical score notation language. Source: over 3 years ago

• What is the Best Piano Composing Software?

  If you are comfortable with common practice notation (sheet music), but want something "not like musescore" check out LilyPond and Frescobaldi. LilyPond is a "music engraving" program that compiles text files to common practice notation PDF files. It also converts data from and to MIDI files for use with other software. Frescobaldi is an editor optimized for LilyPond files. Source: over 3 years ago

• Had my first real "emacs as an extensible editor" moment yesterday

  I typeset music with Lilypond, which has an existing emacs package I've been using for a while. Most recently I've been arranging string accompaniments, and I've gotten into a workflow where I drag the midi file that Lilypond generates into a logic session where I've already recorded guitar/voice so I can hear them together. But it was so many mouse clicks! So I wrote a python script that uses... Source: over 3 years ago

• Music notation app?

  LilyPond is the best and it is completely free, open-source software. Its output is beautiful, it supports many different types of notation, and it has very fine control of layout. However, creating scores in LilyPond is like creating web pages in HTML. It is similar to writing code in a programming language. It is philosophically similar to the typesetting program TeX. It isn't for everyone, there's a steep... Source: almost 4 years ago

• Musixtex: staccato with a slur

  But have you tried lilypond? It's been my go-to for music notation over the years. Also allows inclusion into LaTeX documents. Looks like there's a few examples in the documentation that would indicate your requirement might be the default. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Unison: Draw Music With Words

  This reminds me a lot of LilyPond: https://lilypond.org/ (which has the advantage of being free, but maybe slightly less user-friendly?). Source: almost 4 years ago

• To tie or not to tie ? How would you prefer it being written ?

  You can produce better-looking scores with Lilypond. It's pretty labor-intensive, so I'd recommend only starting with it once your score is mostly complete. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Any projects want/need help?

  If you're a musician, definitely check out the music engraving software LilyPond! Source: almost 4 years ago

• Software for writing notation?

  I use LilyPond for notation. It does an excellent job at producing beautiful looking scores. However, it's not an easy tool for getting ideas down. To capture ideas, I use an audio recorder app on my phone. Source: about 4 years ago

• Would you play a drumming game that connects to your triggers or eDrums?

  Maybe start with a practice journal type of deal, using like lilypond to generate notation for exercises, I just started using practice time but having a web site or standalone version would be nice instead an android app. Source: about 4 years ago