Hi everyone,

My knowledge on Lilypond doesn't go beyond the basic introduction that I read on their web site, which doesn't really bring a solution to the problem in my mind. So, here is a question for those of you who actually use it - if there is any, is it possible to route the text from Pd to Lilypond to create a score in real-time? Or, is there any other way of doing that beside GEM, which likely to be a solution that is doable, but requiring great amount of CPU usage at the same time?

Thanks

As I understand it Lilypond compiles a score based on the text file. It takes multiple passes over. One to draw the staff another to draw part of the notes another to draw all the connecting bars etc.

Interfacing it with PD would seem to require producing a text file and then having lilypond go to town.
To have one continuous "endless score" would require rebuilding lilypond from the ground up. Its not a real-time program.

A better real-time option might be to interface with a program like denemo or rosegarden routing midi to it is already doable

Though this idea does seem cool if you make any progress keep us updated.

Isn't it based on (La)TeX ? That definitely needs two passes.

That Rosegarden only works on Linux, plus, according to the screenshots, it is not a good platform for graphical, proportional notation, which is exactly what I need. I think I will stick with my GEM patch, which seems to make promise to give me what I want, and as long as I keep rendering time between 1 - 4 fps, it works without being CPU expansive. Thanks for advices anyway...

i found this- perhaps it might help you...

http://nime.org/2006/proc/nime2006_338.pdf