Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

[David Kastrup]

Jacques Menu <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks Lukas and Aaron for your help.
>
> In fact, my use case is merely to listen to the MIDI file from within
> Frescobaldi, to ear-proof the score. I don’t have any MIDI equipment,
> and organ sound is fine for that purpose.
>
> I got the surprise that transposing a voice for the oboe d’amore in A,
> in Lully’s « Dormez beaux yeux » for the needs of our oboes band, lead
> to quite modern music being heard...
>
> What would best suit my need is a way to counter-balance the effect of
> \transpose in the \midi block. This way, one would get both the
> printed score and the MIDI pitches alright, even for instruments
> unknown to standard MIDI.
>
> Can that be done?

That's what \transposition is for.  Look it up in the manual.

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David Kastrup