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<p>For producing MIDI accompaniments, VocalEasel relies on the
<a href="http://www.mellowood.ca/mma">MMA</a> Musical Midi Accompaniment system
written by Robert van der Poel&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:bob@mellowood.ca">bob@mellowood.ca</a>&gt;.</p>
<p>The Band-in-a-Box import code is based on reverse engineering work by Alf Warnock&nbsp;&lt;<a href="http://www.alfwarnock.info/alfs">http://www.alfwarnock.info/alfs</a>&gt; and Alain Brenzikofer&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:biabconverter@brenzi.ch">biabconverter@brenzi.ch</a>&gt;</p>
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
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<title>VocalEasel: Opening and Saving Music Files</title>
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<h1>Opening and Saving Music Files</h1>
<p>In addition to its native file format, which it saves in file bundles with a <tt>.vlsong</tt> extension, VocalEasel is capable of importing and creating a number of other file formats.</p>
<h2>Importing Music Files</h2>
<p>All available file formats are displayed with the <i>Open...</i> menu item.</p>
<p>Like much of the functionality of VocalEasel, file importing is fairly new and little tested. To make file reporting more comprehensive and reliable, please report any import problems as <a href="bugs.html">bugs</a>.</p>
<h3>MusicXML</h3>
<p>MusicXML&nbsp;&lt;<a href="http://musicxml.org">http://musicxml.org</a>&gt; is capable of representing a huge variety of sheet music, and VocalEasel only understands a small subset of this: A single melody, with an optional harmony and lyrics. Examples of this kind of MusicXML can be found at Wikifonia&nbsp;&lt;<a href="http://www.wikifonia.org">http://www.wikifonia.org</a>&gt;</p>
<h3>Band-in-a-Box</h3>
<p>VocalEasel should be capable of importing most Band-in-a-Box&nbsp;&lt;<a href="http://www.pgmusic.com">http://www.pgmusic.com</a>&gt; files, although not all styles may work correctly at this point.
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<h3>Lilypond</h3>
<p>Lilypond&nbsp;&lt;<a href="http://www.lilypond.org">http://www.lilypond.org</a>&gt; is capable of representing a huge variety of sheet music, and has a rather general purpose input format with procedural elements that is not easy to parse. Therefore, VocalEasel is only capable of importing very simple Lilypond files.</p>
<h2>Export Formats</h2>
<p>To export a VocalEasel song in a different format, use the <i>Save a Copy As...</i> menu item and select the format from the popup menu. File exporting should be fairly reliable already.</p>
<h3>PDF</h3>
Saves graphical output in Adobe's &lt;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format">Portable Document Format</a>&gt;
<h3>MIDI</h3>
Saves music in &lt;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI">Musical Instrument Digital Interface</a>&gt; format.
<h3>MusicXML</h3>
Saves file in uncompressed, part-wise MusicXML 1.1 format.
<h3>Lilypond</h3>
Saves output in Lilypond format.
<h2>Importing VocalEasel Songs From Other Software</h2>
If necessary, it is possible to import VocalEasel songs into other programs even without running VocalEasel: The <tt>.vlsong</tt> bundle contains a file <tt>Song</tt> which is simply the song in uncompressed, part-wise MusicXML 1.1 format.
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<ul type="circle">
<li><a href="about.html">About VocalEasel</a></li>
<li><a href="edit.html">Entering Music</a></li>
<li><a href="print.html">Printing Music</a></li>
<li><a href="play.html">Playing Music</a></li>
<li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting Bugs</a></li>
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<li><a href="about.html">About VocalEasel</a></li>
<li><a href="files.html">Opening and saving Music files</a></li>
<li><a href="edit.html">Entering Music</a></li>
<li><a href="print.html">Printing Music</a></li>
<li><a href="play.html">Playing Music</a></li>
<li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting Bugs</a></li>
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