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Re: MIDI interface (feature request)
From: |
Kees van den Doel |
Subject: |
Re: MIDI interface (feature request) |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:34:28 -0700 |
> On 19 Mar 2009, at 09:57, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > One technical problem of such a general feature, is that some
> MIDI
> > commands that are intended to apply to all MIDI tracks should
> be
> > inserted in track 0, whereas other MIDI commands (that contain
> a
> > channel number) should be inserted in the same track as
> the
> > corresponding music. Another complication (at least
> conceptually) is
> > the different concepts used in LilyPond and MIDI and how they
> are
> > mapped to each other. By default, MIDI channels correspond to
> Staff
> > contexts in LilyPond, but this can be changed by redefining
> the
> > context definitions in LilyPond. A final complication is the
> lack of
> > standardization of MIDI.
> >
> > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2003-
> 10/msg00069.html
> > for some related information.
>
> One idea is to generate some other format, perhaps Scala seq
> files,
> which in turn can produce MIDI files. When there is
> microtonal
> information present, Scala can use special algorithms to assign
> MIDI
> channels, and also keep track of different synth capabilities.
> I'm not
> sure how that format stands up with respect to LilyPond
> information in
> general, but such a format could be developed in a way directly
> that
> MIDI output cannot.
That would be very useful for other reasons too. Currently I can't tune my
lilypond generated Persian midi
in scala because the pitchbends generated from lilypond for the microtones
are ignored when producing a scale .seq file.
Kees
- MIDI interface (feature request), Kees van den Doel, 2009/03/16
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Hans Aberg, 2009/03/17
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- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Hans Aberg, 2009/03/18
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Kees van den Doel, 2009/03/20
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Hans Aberg, 2009/03/18
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Kees van den Doel, 2009/03/20
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Hans Aberg, 2009/03/19
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Mats Bengtsson, 2009/03/19
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Hans Aberg, 2009/03/19
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request),
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- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Hans Aberg, 2009/03/20
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Mats Bengtsson, 2009/03/20
- Re: MIDI interface (feature request), Hans Aberg, 2009/03/20