Re: Chords in LilyPond

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 30 May 2017 at 01:16, Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 2017-05-29 um 08:24 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:

> Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:24:52 +1000, Vaughan McAlley
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Does anyone actually use MIDI from the chord performer?
>>
>> I do. Although the voicing of the chords is not what a normal player
>> would do, it is okay for checking scores and practising.
>
> If the voicing went through guitar chord exceptions or similar
> instrument-specific contraptions also involved in typesetting, would
> that be more useful?

I imagine it would a bit, but not a lot.
My demands are not very sophisticated - normally for MIDI I transpose chords one octave down, set them piano and use an instrument that has not too much attack, like "fx 4 (atmosphere)".
Of course that doesn’t sound like guitar at all.
If I try to mimick my own picking, I don’t use the Chordmode voice in MIDI.
Maybe a library of picking styles would be possible on top of any internal representation of chords?

Guitar chord exceptions would at least get the chords down to where they sit nicely (around middle C), and would use inversions rather than try to convey the bass note information in the chord itself (to me, C/E implies some kind of bass instrument). That would be a good start.

Vaughan