Re: Adding a continuous drone to midi output

[David Kastrup]

Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> writes:

> On 22 May 2018 at 20:06, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Ok, this is _too_ much of a temptation.  So little to fill in
>> actually...
>>
>> Now it would be even nicer to be able to write
>>
>> c'1*#(ly:music-length musicwithdrone)
>>
>> and there is actually no compelling reason not to allow this I think.
>> I'll take a look to see what would be involved adding to the parser
>> here.
>>
>> This really beats "LilyPond programmers are lazy jerks" solution-finding
>> approaches.
>>
>
> That would be absolutely brilliant, David! If you do it I will start
> promoting the "Lilypond programmers are hard-working saints" meme. ☺
>
> Another somewhat related question, would it be possible to automatically
> wrap the music with `\unfoldRepeats` when generating MIDI output? Isn't
> that what you always want anyways?

\score {
  \repeat volta 2 { c4 d e f }
  \layout { }
  \midi { }
}

What now?

-- 
David Kastrup