The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30015   Message #3385060
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
02-Aug-12 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Death of Fred Lowry-Australian Bushranger
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Death of Fred Lowry-Australian Bushranger
I see, Joe: when Roger posted his message, the MIDI file had not been there yet.

Now I do not want to analyze the MIDItext, but I bet the manifestly wrong pitches in measures 9 and 13 of Bob's ABC text are not the programmer's fault.

(The problem with MIDItext seems to be that it fails to administer upbeats, but here the author solved the problem by simply lengthening the upbeat to a whole measure.)

A tool "nwc2abc" that takes NWC files to ABC text is rumoured to exist. Do you use it, or would you if it were better? Are you convinced (as I am) that ABC text in Mudcat messages is useful, so that we can read the key signatures, bar lines, preferably lyrics, etc.? (Admittedly, MIDI files can have lyrics as well, as yours had, but browser-internal MIDI players do not display them.)

Some of the excellent free ABC software available, playing the song and displaying its written music, should be on every 'catter's computer. --

Like Bob, I am now waiting for Roger's version.