Re: [Rosegarden-user] Better guessing for SATB Midi files?

[Julie S <msj...@ya...>]

Hello LenW,

The good news is that the clef guessing stuff has been reworked for MIDI import in Thorn.  Unfortuantely, I haven't really investigated it first hand.  Maybe someone else can help with the details?

The other good news is that there is now an SATB template (Thorn now supports templates) for such things.  Though there are not very many developed at this point.

I don't think we have any ready mechanism to read track titles and decide what clef to assign based on title.  My understanding is the new clef guesser looks at the range of notes in the track and assigns a clef based on that.

If you are comfortable building from source, I suggest you pull our svn trunk or our Thorn pre-release and give it a try.

Follow all the steps up to "make install", but don't "make install" unless you really want.

after the make step, a simple "./rosegarden" from the directory you complied it from will get rosegarden up and going.

So you can run your previous version and Thorn side by side if you like.

At this point, it would be best to see how we can help you get what you need using Thorn, rather than a prior releases of RG---we are not providing any real support for it these days.  Mostly for us it is used as an oracle to make certain functionality is ported correctly.

Sincerely,
Julie S.


--- On Sun, 1/31/10, LenW <Len@Weisberg.com> wrote:

> From: LenW <Len@Weisberg.com>
> Subject: [Rosegarden-user]  Better guessing for SATB Midi files?
> To: ros...@li...
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 4:44 PM
> 
> I would like to import Midi files of "SATB" choral music
> and have RoseGarden
> guess the clefs correctly, based on the very standard
> rules:
>   - if the track title starts 'S' or 'A' 
> (Soprano or Alto),
>          use a G clef
>   - if the track title starts 'T' (Tenor), the clef
> should be "G-8"
>     (or "treble_8", or however you indicate a
> treble clef, down one octave.
>   - if the track title starts 'B' (Bass), use a bass
> clef
> 
> Some questions:
>   - Is there any way of setting up such clues to the
> clef-guesser?
>   - Is there any way of defining a button, called
> perhaps "SATB" that
>      would set the clefs this
> way?
>   - Is it better on Thorn?
> 
> On version 1.7.3 , (Ubuntu Karmic, 9.10) it usually guesses
> two 
> flavors of C-clef for Tenor and Bass, and changing the
> clefs is 
> a fussy business I would very much like to avoid.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thx, 
> -LenW
> 
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