Re: Slurs in FluidSynth

[David Kastrup]

Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sep 14, 2019, at 17:15, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Here is an example showing _slurs_.  Are you telling me that the
>> many instances of two slurred A4 notes are to be sounded only once?
>> That would sound pretty awful, and this is a Bach urtext.
>
> Let’s not worry about bariolage.  Instead, let’s say I’ve got a flute
> part which is rendered as if every note is tongued, but I want a
> legato rendering of slurred notes.
>
> If I understand correctly, there is a poly/mono MIDI mode that has
> something to do with this.  I’ve groped and flailed among FluidSynth’s
> related options with no success, so I figured there might be some
> essential information missing from LilyPond’s MIDI output, but it
> seems equally possible that I just haven't found the right set of
> FluidSynth options.

Are you using articulate.ly (and its respective articulating command)
and/or some LilyPond 2.19?  Either should likely make a difference.  I
don't think that LilyPond can do a lot more than end one note when the
next starts, and it should do that with either option if I remember
correctly.  lilymidi --pretty should be able to show that information
from a usefully small Midi file.

> At some point, I may have time to research this issue in more depth,
> but I am hoping that someone here might be able to save me some work.

I don't think that much more than abutting notes is possible from
LilyPond's site.  We don't have something like access to "do not tongue"
controllers.

-- 
David Kastrup