Re: abc2midi don't like the smell of flower of scotland

[David Dalton]

On Oct 12, 2019, Marc Chantreux wrote on rec.music.celtic
(in article <5da1f679$0$21616$426a...@news.free.fr>):

>
> hello people,
>
> hello people,
>
> i'm very new to
> * this group
> * playing bagpipes
> * playing music
> * writing abc
>
> i'm used to unix but it doesn't help to play the the scot national
> anthem (which is what i want to do).
>
> So, to get both a sheet and a midi file as example, i downloaded
>
> http://www.partitions.bzh/fichier/313_Flower_of_Scotland.abc
>
> and tried to get the midi of it with abc2midi.
>
> i got those errors:
>
> 4.11 January 01 2019 abc2midi
> Error in line-char 13-7 : Bad tie: possibly two ties in a row
> Error in line-char 14-7 : Cannot find note before tie
> writing MIDI file flower_of_scotland1.mid
> Warning in line-char 10-4 : Track 0 Bar 0 has 3 units instead of 6 in repeat
> Warning in line-char 27-5 : Track 0 Bar 17 has 2 units instead of 6 in
> repeat
> Warning in line-char 28-4 : Track 0 Bar 18 has 1 units instead of 6 in
> repeat
>
> to navigate from error to error, i started an abc plugin for vim (there
> abc syntax is already supported)
>
> https://github.com/eiro/vim-abc
>
> and i started to modify the file randomly (i have to admit i'm just
> starting to learn abc) but failed to have a midi file.
>
> so i tried
>
> http://terrytraub.org/abc/FlowerOfScotland.abc
>
> and have new errors.
>
> i want to learn ABC anyway but it would be a little long. waiting for
> the glorious moment i will be able to debug an abc file by myself: can
> anyone provide some assistance to abc2midi ?
>
> regards
> marc

I have added rec.music.makers.bagpipe , alt.music.midi , and comp.music.midi
to the Newsgroups line (which originally was just rec.music.celtic ) and
perhaps someone from one of those groups will be able to help you.

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[Pete]

In article <0001HW.2353E47512...@news.eternal-september.org>,

David Dalton <dal...@nfld.com> wrote:
>On Oct 12, 2019, Marc Chantreux wrote on rec.music.celtic
>(in article <5da1f679$0$21616$426a...@news.free.fr>):
>
>> hello people,
>>

Heh... (:-/) I am in no way an ABC expert (my copy of abc2midi is dated
about 10 years back) but a few minutes with the manual showed me where
the errors were. ( http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.0 )

In fact, "Error in line-char 13-7 : Bad tie: possibly two ties in a row"
was pretty self-explanatory! The bar on line 13 ends with the '-' tie
character, and line 14 begins with one! Two ties in a row...

Removing the '-' on 14 cured the error. Haven't bothered looking at
the warnings. RTFM is usually a good idea, though... (:-))

BTW, the error didn't prevent abc2midi generating a playable midifile.
What did was a missing "X:" statement... (I said my copy was old!)

>>
>
>I have added rec.music.makers.bagpipe , alt.music.midi , and comp.music.midi
>to the Newsgroups line (which originally was just rec.music.celtic ) and
>perhaps someone from one of those groups will be able to help you.
>

And comp.music.midi is where I saw it. Helpful,David.

-- Pete --