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New feature suggestions


From: Manuel Kleefuß
Subject: New feature suggestions
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:12:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi there,

maybe some of you find the following two features suggestions useful:
(actually, I could not find a feature list, so I chose the bug list ;))

1.) A possibility to add new MIDI instruments would be great.
    Especially with percussions, there are a lot of sounds that are not
    MIDI default. 

    Take the congas, for example.
    1 conga has 6 default sounds: slap, open, bass, heel, tip, muffled.
    To notate them, you usually have a set of 3 congas, i.e. one Staff
    with 3 lines showing the different sounds of each conga.

    For MIDI, there is only the possibility to get one low and one high
    conga with the sounds open, muffled and simple "cgh" and "cgl", which
    are exactly the same sounds as the opens.

    If there was an interface to import MIDI sounds from disk, everybody
    could have exactly the sounds he/she wants to for any kind of instrument.
    (I assume the percussions are by far not the only instruments having
     this problem...)

2.) Whenever you create MIDI files from a Score,i.e. you add a \midi-block,
    you will receive a new MIDI file on disk. The files are named like
    *.mid, *-1.mid, *-2.mid etc. You can influence the sequence by changing
    the sequence of \midi-blocks, which is good, but you can not give the
    resulting MIDI file a name on your own yet.

    Take the song "blabla":
    Let's say we have a bass staff, a guitar staff, two different percussion
    staffs and a vocals staff. Creating MIDIs the current way would result in 
    files like "blabla.mid", "blabla-1.mid", "blabla-2.mid" etc.
    Much nicer was if you had an option like :
    \midi {
      \set Filename="vocals.mid"
    }

    Such, you could create exactly the filenames you want.
    I think this is useful for any instrument, but again, the percussions
    had a lot of profit from that because if you notate African or South
    American rhythms, there are a lot of staffs for the instruments, usually
    something from 10 to 30. If you have to find out which staff was the
    solo on instrument x no. y, you will soon get mad... ;)


I hope I am not the only one considering these features useful and I
remain with best regards,
Manuel Kleefuß

P.S.: Have I yet mentioned that Lilypond is the very best music notation SW in
the whole wide world? :)




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