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Output
+ Associated example files
The musical material generated by slippery chicken can be written to files in various formats. The user is not required to generate output files in order for slippery chicken to produce its data, but the data generated is not audible or printable without them.
The generation of MIDI files requires no extra installation or use of additional software, as they are created using a small subset of the Common Music (Heinrich Taube) package that comes bundled with slippery chicken. The MIDI files generated can be imported into notation software such as Finale, Sibelius, or the open-source alternative MuseScore for further editing.
The printable output options involve either Common Music Notation (CMN) or LilyPond. CMN must be installed and loaded into the Lisp environment before use, as is described on the installation page. The LilyPond application can be obtained from lilypond.org.
+ MIDI
MIDI output can be generated by slippery chicken using the
midi-play
method. This method takes as its only required argument a slippery-chicken
object, which can also be passed as a local variable or as the global variable defined as the first argument to the make-slippery-chicken
function.The method also requires a path name and file name for the output it generates. These can be set using the optional keyword argument
:midi-file
. If no value is passed to this argument by the user, output is written to the default directory (initially /tmp) in a MIDI file named from the :title
slot of the slippery chicken object.A common straightforward application of this method may look like this:
Setting MIDI parameters
The various settings for MIDI parameters are specified in different contexts in slippery chicken. For example, program (or 'patch') numbers are specified in the definition of
instrument
objects using the :midi-program
keyword (see the source code documentation on the make-instrument
function), and MIDI channel numbers are specified in the ensemble
block of the make-slippery-chicken
function (see the page on ensembles). Information on the features and limitations of microtonal MIDI output can also be found on the 'players and the ensemble' page.The
midi-play
method itself has 7 optional arguments that influence the generation of the MIDI file, such as start-section
and players
. Specifics on all of the arguments for this method can be found in the source code documentation for slippery-chicken/midi-play
.+ CMN
The
cmn-display
method also takes as its only required argument a slippery-chicken
object, which can also be given as a local variable or as the variable defined as the first argument to make-slippery-chicken
.The
cmn-display
method can also be passed an output file name path. This is set to the default directory (initially /tmp) and an EPS file named from the :title
slot of the slippery chicken Anjlab sql profiler download. object by default. CMN generates encapsulated post-script (.eps
) files, so the user will require an application that is capable of opening .eps
files or converting them to post-script or PDF, such as Apple's Preview.app or the open source software GIMP.A common straightforward useof this method may look like this:
The
cmn-display
method has 31 optional arguments that influence its output. Some of these, such as respell-notes
or auto-clefs
, enable or disable algorithms that will first alter the data of the slippery-chicken
object before generating the output file. Others, such as size
, page-height
, or auto-bar-nums
, influence the page layout. Specifics on all of the arguments for this method can be found in the source code documentation for slippery-chicken/cmn-display
.CMN for quick previewing
CMN's output can be useful as a preview, as it is easy to generate the whole score within Lisp and CMN generally runs faster than LilyPond. In some cases however, CMN will produce collisions of symbols on the page that can only be adjusted manually using external software such as Adobe Illustrator or the open-source application Inkscape. The use of LilyPond is encouraged for generating printable output that may require less post-generation tweaking.
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The user can have the
cmn-display
method print the sets of pitches used in each sequence of a slippery-chicken
object on separate staves at the bottom of the score by setting the display-sets
keyword argument of cmn-display
to T
when applied to a complete slippery-chicken
object:More information on this can be found in the source code documentation for slippery-chicken/cmn-display.
+ CMN output of just set-palettes and rthm-seq-palettes
The
cmn-display
method can also be used to generate printable output of individual set-palette
or rthm-palette
objects by applying the method directly to them:More information on using
cmn-display
with set-palette
and rthm-seq-palette
objects, as well as the arguments available for those contexts, can be found in the source code documentation for set-palette/cmn-display
and rthm-seq-palette/cmn-display
. NB: There is no
cmn-display
method for rthm-seq-map
objects, as this would essentially be the same as applying the method to the slippery-chicken
object. + LilyPond
See core usage for discussion of automatically calling Lilypond and opening the resultant PDF when working with SBCL on OSX.
The
write-lp-data-for-all
method produces all of the .ly
files needed by the LilyPond application to typeset the musical data of the given slippery-chicken
object. While the method doesn't run LilyPond automatically, as the cmn-display
method does with CMN, it does produce separate files for the score and each of the individual players of that object.The method generates the file names of its output automatically based on the
title
slot of the slippery-chicken
object. The file for the score can be identified by the underscore placed at the beginning of the file name and the -score
suffix placed at the end. The names of the files for the parts consist of the title, the player ID, and the suffix -part
. The additional -def
file need not be accessed directly by the user, but is required by LilyPond.Arguments
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This method also takes as its only required argument a
slippery-chicken
object, which can also be given as a local variable or as the global variable defined as the first argument to the make-slippery-chicken
function. The output path can be specified using the keyword argument :base-path
. As opposed to the methods for the MIDI and CMN output, the write-lp-data-for-all
method requires no file name with the path, as it generates the file names automatically. If no output path is specified by the user, the method uses the default path of '/tmp/'
.A common straightforward application of this method may look like this:
The
write-lp-data-for-all
method has 28 optional arguments, which, like those of the cmn-display
method, influence both the layout as well as the data of the slippery-chicken
object itself prior to generating output. Specifics on all of the arguments for this method can be found in the source code documentation for slippery-chicken/write-lp-data-for-all
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NB: See also this note about Lilypond and instrument names.
LilyPond .app/.exe vs. command-line
LilyPond was originally designed for command-line use, and although it now comes packaged as a standalone executable for Mac (LilyPond.app) and Windows (LilyPad.exe), command-line usage is still an option.
NB: As of July 2012, the LilyPond.app was not yet compatible with Mac OSX 10.7.x ('Lion'). However, LilyPond can still be used on Lion from the command-line. Please refer to the documentation on the LilyPond website for more information on how to do this.
Update June 1st 2013: The Lilypond 2.16.2 app now runs on Lion. However in the meantime there's also the slippery-chicken lp-display macro for rendering scores all within the SBCL/OSX environment.
NB: LilyPond can take a long time to render output of larger scores, during which time it is unresponsive and may appear to have hung or frozen.
+ MusicXML
Music XML output has been available since slippery-chicken version 1.08. It allows the generation of MusicXML code in text form for input into various music notation programmes such as Finale, Dorico, Sibelius, MuseScore, NoteAbilityPro, etc. Note that while the import of MusicXML files into those programmes is generally good, different software/versions will import varying amounts of the encoded data and display it with varying degrees of success. Some (e.g. MuseScore, NoteAbilityPro) sadly fall over when trying to import more complex notations such as nested tuplets. So experimentation is necessary as well as acceptance that MusicXML is not the save-all you might hope it to be. It is, however, much, much better than MIDI import into notation programmes.
Overall, my experience during the 2017 design and implementation process was that Dorico handled MusicXML better than the other software named above, even if it didn't import as much as, say, Finale (this may change, quickly even, so we'll just leave that there). You can read more anecdotally about my experiences of implementing MusicXML for slippery-chicken on my blog.
Outputting MusicXML from a slippery-chicken object is very straightforward: simply call the
write-xml
method. All voices for the score and parts are written into one file. As it is assumed that editing will take place in the notation software of choice, there are only very basic arguments to this method, some of which may even be ignored upon import. For example, the :in-c keyword argument of other methods is missing here, as switching between sounding and transposing scores is assumed to be the job of the notation software used after MusicXML import. See the
write-xml
method for more details, particularly on the method arguments. + Third-party SVG editors
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While both CMN and LilyPond strive to produce scores without the need for further editing, some tweaking of the output may occasionally be desired. In addition to modifying any of the text-based LilyPond files generated, the
.eps
and .pdf
files that these applications produce can also be manually manipulated using vector graphics editing software such as Adobe Illustrator or an open-source alternative such as Inkscape. Editing scalable vector graphic files (SVG), such as the .eps
or .pdf
files produced by CMN and LilyPond, is easy and very intuitive, as whole objects (e.g. note-heads, stems, beams, bars, flags, dynamics, articulations etc.) can be simply clicked and dragged.+ CLM sound file output
CLM output in slippery chicken is generated using the
clm-play
method. In its most straightforward form that output can be generated as such:A detailed description of the
clm-play
method, including instructions for generating output, can be found on the slippery chicken and CLM page.+ Default output directories and more
slippery chicken stores various configuration data internally and allows you to change it via the function
set-sc-config
. For instance, with SBCL on OSX, you can choose whether to automatically open EPS files: (set-sc-config 'cmn-display-auto-open NIL)
or with any Lisp on any system, to change the default directory for output files: (set-sc-config 'default-dir '/sc-output/:)
. See robodoc for details.