Re: Custom percussion staves

[ebenezer]

Thank you Aaron,

Ah, makes sense. I prefer the way you suggested and have it working.

Cheers.


On 2021-01-28 15:19, Aaron Hill wrote:
> On 2021-01-28 4:35 am, ebenezer wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have noticed that use of a custom percussion staff is different from
> > the manner in which one of the pre-defined percussion staves is used:
> >
> > partBongo = \new DrumStaff \with {
> >   drumStyleTable = #bongos-style
> > } \staffBongo
> >
> > ... compared to ...
> >
> > partPercCustom = \new DrumStaff \with {
> >   % -- drumStyleTable = #defPercCustom  % -- this doesn't work
> > } <<
> >   \set DrumStaff.drumStyleTable = #(alist->hash-table defPercCustom)
> > % -- works this way
> > > >
> >
> > Is this just the way it is, or am I missing something?
>
> bongos-style (and its kin) are hash tables, which is what 
> drumStyleTable expects.  The documentation shows defining a custom 
> drum style as an alist and then converting it to a hash table when you 
> use it.  An alternative would be to do the conversion when you define 
> the style:
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.22.0"
>
> custom-drum-style =
> #(alist->hash-table
>   '((bassdrum default "tenuto" -1)
>     (snare diamond #f 0)
>     (hihat cross #f 1)))
>
> \new DrumStaff
> \with { drumStyleTable = #custom-drum-style }
> \drummode { bd4 hh8 8 sn2 }
> %%%%
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill