Help with keymapped vs. Lotro ABC
Help with keymapped vs. Lotro ABC
Hi,
I've been looking over the
ABC stuff and am starting to understand it. I want to make my own
ABC
files. For existing songs (from old standards, or modern songs) I could find the sheet music to translate it to
ABC, but my question is about making original compositions.
What I would want to be able to do is to play around with the keymapped notes (pressing the numbers with shift and control) until
I find a melody or tune that I like, and then write it out as an
ABC file for playing again later.
The only thing is, I'm getting confused with what number/key combination corresponds to the
ABC notes.
I've seen that the notes available in
Lotro ABC are:
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C D E F G A B c d e f g a b c' z
but how do those correspond to the number keys?
I looked at the key map for the music system and see the following:
(I haven't remapped this, so it should all be default mapping)
1 = C3
2 = D3
3 = E3
4 = F3
5 = G3
6 = A3
7 = B3
8 = C4
CTRL+1 = B2
CTRL+2 = C#3
CTRL+3 = D#3
CTRL+4 = E3
CTRL+5 = F#3
CTRL+6 = G#3
CTRL+7 = A#3
CTRL+8 = B3
SHFT+1 = C4
SHFT+2 = D4
SHFT+3 = E4
SHFT+4 = F4
SHFT+5 = G4
SHFT+6 = A4
SHFT+7 = B4
SHFT+8 = C5
(Why is CTRL+4 mapped to E3 when the other CTRL keys are #? Why is CTRL+4 not E#3? Is this how it's supposed to be or a bad
mapping?)
Okay, so just for an example,....
Let's say I was playing around with the music and came up with the following:
1 1 CTRL1 2 SHFT2 3 SHFT3 CTRL3
(I know this isn't very musical or melodic, but just using it as an example.)
so then according to the key mapping listed above, then this would be:
C3 C3 B2 D3 D4 E3 E4 D#3
so how would I write that out in
ABC?
I'm getting confused by the D3 vs. D#3 vs. D4 etc.
Is it possible to see a list of the numbers/key combinations corresponding to the
ABC notations?
such as,
1 = C,
CTRL1 = B
SHFT1 = b
2 = c'
(I know these are wrong and don't really match, but just as an example)
Obviously I'm confusing myself, and hopefully not confusing anyone else.
The default key
mapping doesn't 't cover all the available notes. Basically, ii covers three scales: C3 Major, B2 Major, and C4 Major.
The reason the Ctrl keys have naturals is because the B Major scales has them.
If you have songs written down using your keymap (i.e., the keys you press) you're going to have some extra work to convert them
to
ABC. ABC requires the notes to show duration, whereas a lot of the keymap songs just gave the notes. 1235321
only tells you the keys you press. CD E2 F2 ED C2 not only tells you the notes, but how long the note plays.
So, how do the default keys map to ABC notation? Like this:
1 = C
2 = D
3 = E
4 = F
5 = G
6 = A
7 = B
8 = c
CTRL+1 = B,
CTRL+2 = ^C
CTRL+3 = ^D
CTRL+4 = E
CTRL+5 = ^F
CTRL+6 = ^G
CTRL+7 = ^A
CTRL+8 = B
SHFT+1 = c
SHFT+2 = d
SHFT+3 = e
SHFT+4 = f
SHFT+5 = g
SHFT+6 = a
SHFT+7 = b
SHFT+8 = c'
Oh, those numbers in the key map options window like C3 C4: they show what scale the note belongs to.
ABC does it
a little differently, Instead numbering the scales, they use upper and lower case, commas and apostrophes. The lets them use the
number to indicate note length. C2 is twice as long as C and C/ is half as long.
Does this help move you along?
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