The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135600 Message #3096043
Posted By: Jack Campin
15-Feb-11 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: 18th century English tunes - new site
Subject: RE: 18th century English tunes - new site
There are programs that convert MIDI to ABC but they can't ever do a very good job - you will always need to edit. With luck the barlines might be in the right places, but:
- the beaming and phrasemarks will be random
- the default note length might not be the most readable one
- the key signatures will get the mode wrong for all but major keys
- you will have to spot repeats and put in repeat constructs yourself
- you will have to write in all the metadata, like who the transcriber is and where the tune comes from.