How to turn GABC notation into sound ?
  • Aren
    Posts: 5
    Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

    [Due to my inattention, I just placed this question in the wrong category (General Music Discussion). My apologies for that.]

    For some time now, I have been using two websites (https://www.sourceandsummit.com/editor/alpha/ and https://run.gregoriochant.org/cgi/process.pl) to (re-)write Gregorian chant scores using GABC code. The application also allows me to download a PDF of the generated score. It works wonderfully.
    Now I’m wondering if there’s a way to turn GABC notation into sound or convert it into an audio file (such as a WAV or MP3) so that I can more easily check what I’ve written. I’ve already had a look at the website https://github.com/jperon/gabctk, but I can’t quite figure out how to install the application. Moreover, this involves conversion into a MIDI file, which subsequently requires specific software to play it back. What I am looking for, quite simply, is an audio rendition of the GABC script.

    Could someone please point me in the right direction?

    Kind regards.

    Aren
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 3,442
    (Next time, just edit the category of your first post instead of having a double thread)

    Can you please specify what you mean by an "audio rendition"? Do you mean just hearing the notes played generically, perhaps by an organ tone? Or do you mean being sung to text à la Cantai?
  • Aren
    Posts: 5
    Thank you for responding to my question. Indeed, all I need is to be able to listen to the piece being played on the organ or the piano. I don’t worry about the notes, but I would particularly like to check if I have correctly applied the 'punctum mora' and the ‘episemas’.
  • probe
    Posts: 288
    You could maybe contact Source & Summit (Illuminare) and ask them to reinstate the MIDI export option they once had.
  • probe
    Posts: 288
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  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,995
    Can you paste it here and press the first neume, and then the play box appears, https://bbloomf.github.io/jgabc/transcriber.html
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  • Aren
    Posts: 5
    Merci à tout le monde d'avoir réagi à mon appel. Great thanks to everyone for your reactions. Especially tomjaw for mentioning this fantastic website. This is exactly what I was looking for. It's a most convenient tool to check the score.
    I think we can now close this thread.
    I wish all of you the best.
    Thanked by 1tomjaw
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