Issue 1331 in lilypond: Enhancement: add panning support to the MIDI backend

[lilypond]

Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Low midi

New issue 1331 by v.villenave: Enhancement: add panning support to the MIDI  
backend
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1331

An interesting feature was just requested by Jan Warchoł:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2010-10/msg00299.html

MIDI voices have stereo sound abilities: they may sound more from the left  
speaker than the right speaker, for instance. IWBN to have this in LilyPond  
(implemented as a context property, like midiInstrument?): a Voice context  
could be set to sound only from the left speaker, a second Voice only from  
the right speaker and a third one would sound from both.

(Bug Meister's note: additionally, this property could be reset on-the-fly,  
maybe even on a sustained note, thus resulting in kitschy pseudo-vibratos  
-- what, don't you guys miss the eighties? ;-)