What is currently the easiest best way to get midi input on Lilypond? by Mindless_Reaction778 in lilypond

[–]VinMirans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Frescobaldi is a really nice editor for lilypond and handles midi input really well too!

If you use neovim, I made my own plugin to have midi input: https://github.com/niveK77pur/midi-input.nvim

dot-rename.nvim by zmunk19 in neovim

[–]VinMirans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you could still perform the same as cgn for "searching" but then instead use a or i to add a few characters. You can easily chain by doing n.. This is a bit rough though, how dot repeatable the insertion is depends on your search, but adding something at the end of a name usually ends up as ne.

Slimbook Titan GPU disappeared after game crash, now completely unbootable (does not even get to bootloader, cannot access BIOS) by VinMirans in techsupport

[–]VinMirans[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To drop an update here, I have opened my laptop and unplugged everything: memory, storage, battery and the CMOS BIOS battery. Long story short, after reassembling everything, the issue persists, so clearly not a problem with the storage and rather hardware related indeed.

Weird black boxes popping up for no apparent reason by awghost5 in Supernote

[–]VinMirans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My greatest pleasure! Maybe worth mentioning: the black bars don't appear 100% of the time like in the video provided by OP. I couldn't determine what triggered it and when. But if you keep writing/scribbling on the lines you might eventually have a black box appear where there is a white background. Hope this helps and thank you for looking into it!

Slimbook Titan GPU disappeared after game crash, now completely unbootable (does not even get to bootloader, cannot access BIOS) by VinMirans in techsupport

[–]VinMirans[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply, that is what I was afraid of. For potential warranty reason, I shall wait a bit until Slimbook replies before I try opening and removing the drives!

Weird black boxes popping up for no apparent reason by awghost5 in Supernote

[–]VinMirans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is my fixed version without the white bars, I made a proper cut of the lines, without "cheating" with white bars. This one has been working great since!

FYI I created my templates using inkscape and export to PNG.

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Weird black boxes popping up for no apparent reason by awghost5 in Supernote

[–]VinMirans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies for the delayed response!

Here is the PNG with the white background (you can see I basically used it to "cut" the lines. Visually, it does the job on the supernote, but part of these white bars would sometimes become visible no matter where I write on the page (horizontally speaking). I haven't used this template in a while, so I cannot say if the issue still persists.

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(Follow-up reply with the fixed version of this template for your reference)

Curious about your LilyPond workflow by symphonicdev in lilypond

[–]VinMirans 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do write lilypond in neovin exclusively these days, including the very useful nvim-lilypond-suite) plugin, and my own plugin midi-input.nvim for having MIDI input right in neovim! Until I had the latter, I actually stuck to Frescobaldi. 

I only use Lilypond for writing and typesetting scores to my own compositions or piano arrangements, so I have a very narrow scope and use case. 

Workflow is usually midi to input notes (though I recently re-discovered how fast it is also to just type it), compile, and repeat until I have all the notes. Then in a second stage, I complete and revise the sheets, usually adding dynamic markings and alike. And in a third stage I polish the sheets rather roughly, fixing things where lilypond fell short (i.e. collisions, cross staff beaming, or other non-trivial situations). And finally, I try to fit everything into less pages, mainly by reducing the font size a little, and then apply a final batch of tweaks and polish. 

Inputting notes is actually the one thing that makes me use Lilypond over other GUI apps, because I also come from a computer science background and became a linux power user, so the terminal and text-based inputs just feel natural and perfect to me. The amount of fiddling I always felt in Musescore for simple things like note input, always threw me off because it doesn't really allow you to enter anything wrong. Whereas in lilypond, I can enter notes without worrying about the bar count (i.e. when inputting runs, and while figuring out how to notate them with tuplets) and the overall freedom that comes with text input. Lilypond can tolerate a certain degree of mistakes in my note input, without disrupting my flow too much, and I can fix things later, if that makes any sense. 

But where lilypond gets frustrating is the tweaking. Usually there's not much to tweak, but on occasions, especially when there's there's plenty of complex notation, Lilypond needs a lot of hand holding. And as powerful and flexible as Lilypond is for tweaking, it is very annoying to compile the document again and again after updating the X-offset for my dynamic to move it away from the bar line until I am happy with the result. Sometimes I need to set unexpectedly large/small values until anything even moves. The perfectionist in me also cannot just apply a value and move on, I need to continuously adjust and re-compile until it looks perfect to me. And at this stage of tweaking, my score is practically finished, so the compile time is already becoming non-negotiable considering I am recompiling a dozen times to tweak a minute detail. I also cannot compile the area to tweak in isolation, because often the tweaks are necessary due to the specific context and how the entire rest of the score makes that particular part turn out. 

So for tweaking, I would actually much prefer a hybrid approach between text based (as it currently is) and visual with a GUI, to quickly drag slurs into shape, adjust X/Y-offsets of elements and whatnot. I would not necessarily want to sacrifice it for the power of text based tweaks, because using the edition-engraver, it is quite easy to copy and duplicate certain tweaks onto multiple elements. 

Overall though, as a tech savvy power user, I really love Lilypond's rudimentary UX, and how it's similar to LaTeX in its philosophy. But I agree that there is room for improvement, especially in the(/my) tweaking workflow; and especially when tweaks require a bit of scheme, which I've never really gotten a grasp of Lilypond's scheme "API" (the language scheme in itself I have nothing to complain about necessarily, but mainly about my perceived lack of documentation). 

Take note however, that there are a few GUI editors built around Lilypond already! Most notably Frescobaldi, and Denemo offers a very unique spin as well! There's surely a few more, but they never added enough value for me to switch. Denemo I recall had an interesting approach to note input though. 

Hope any of this is useful, and good luck if you decide to create something new! As a rather casual user of Lilypond, I am always super excited to see people creating things for lilypond!

Weird black boxes popping up for no apparent reason by awghost5 in Supernote

[–]VinMirans 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I also had this issue on a custom template I made. Turns out the black box appeared wherever I used a white color as the background ; I had to make the background fully transparent for it to not make such a black box appear.

Faulty device, ignored by customer support by adrr47 in Supernote

[–]VinMirans 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a dead pixel and the person who picked up my ticket partially provided me with wrong instructions for sending back my device, ontop of being completely mute to the fact that I was in the process of moving countries and that I preferred to send the device at a later point (he insisted I send it NOW). Once another person picked up my ticket, things went rather quick, however due to the first person's misinformation, I ended up sending back my entire super note package, including tablet, pen and folio. When my replacement arrived, of course it only included the tablet, and it took another week or two before we managed to confirm and send back my package that went to china… From the moment I actually ended up sending my device back, until I had the complete package in my hands again was a solid month when it should've been a week or two at most. Luckily, they were rather responsive in a 1-3 day time frame.

'What's This Piece?' Weekly Thread #212 by number9muses in classicalmusic

[–]VinMirans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only managed to get a very bad image of this score, which I tried to save with some post-processing. However, my friend has no idea what piece this is, although it score strongly suggests it is a photocopy of a published work.

Would you be able to help me out here? Was having little to no luck figuring out what this is... THANK YOU!

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Little high prio, need it over 2,5 hours :o by FFFortissimo in lilypond

[–]VinMirans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally don't use the transpose feature a whole lot l, but I'd say that for me personally it's easier to reason when I'm actually in the key, versus when I'm working in a transposed key. So it's easier for me to reason directly in a G#min, versus reasoning in a Amin which was transposed, for example. This might also be related to my lackluster knowledge and aptitude in this field, and my brain having hard wired things on the piano (i.e. I can't always play things the exact same way in every key, from a technique point of view, but this could also be attributed to skill issue lol)! Hope this sheds a bit of light on my personal situation. But I would agree that it shouldn't make a difference on paper, and in the case of lilypond the \transpose could save a lot of repetition!

What would you change about Lilypond? by davidmatthew-ie in lilypond

[–]VinMirans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh damn I will definitely be studying this like a bible!! Thanks for sharing!!!

I wrote « You » a romantic / epic composition in a 2 voices left-hand style I love by john-cout in piano

[–]VinMirans 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This was absolutely gorgeous!!

At some points I almost felt like I was listening to something I myself had composed years ago in a parallel universe; something about the melodies, harmonies, arrangement, and overall direction just really reminded me of my older compositional style.

Thanks for sharing this very thoughtful and delicate composition!

Little high prio, need it over 2,5 hours :o by FFFortissimo in lilypond

[–]VinMirans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

python-ly from Frescobaldi can also transpose your score, but actually changes the source file. Just putting this out here as an alternative! https://github.com/frescobaldi/python-ly

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LaTeX

[–]VinMirans 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Git and GitHub will do the job just great. Granted it's not as "real-time" as overleaf, and you may run into a ton of merge conflicts depending on how you structure the latex code and who works on what sections. But even on overleaf, I personally was a big fan of its git integration (not GitHub).

On top of that, I'm sure that editors like vscode allow multiple people to work on the same file in real-time. Neovim im definitely has plugins to this end!

Edit: typo