Re: Has anyone in this group ever worked on the midi internals?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

the MIDI backend hasn't changed since we lasted touched it, AFAICT. You
should be able to follow the flow by starting at midi-*.cc.
Those get generated from audio-*.cc (check how audio-staff.cc sets up a
MIDI track). The audio elements get generated from *performer.cc.

Most of it is fairly straightforward C++. There is no LISP pluggability of
the MIDI code. The problem is that you'll have to come up with ways to
change the MIDI timing of events to reflect articulation, and possibly
changes to the design to facilitate that.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:04 AM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 3/27/16 7:36 PM, "address@hidden
> on
> > behalf of Redwood (Daniel)"
> > <address@hidden on behalf of
> > address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi David and everyone,
> >>
> >>So, I know enough now to conclude I would have to learn a great deal
> >>before I could accomplish my goal. Before I invest that time...
> >>
> >>I wouldn¹t want to proceed without guidance from Jan or possibly Han-Wen.
> >>Even if I completely accomplished the goal, I can¹t see it shipping
> >>without their involvement, even if just to say they don¹t want to be
> >>involved. But preferably they could provide some guidance.
> >
> > My perception is that neither Jan nor Han-Wen is heavily involved in
> > LilyPond development at this point.  They are both certainly sources of
> > understanding, but there are few commits that they currently make.  And I
> > don't believe that they act as gatekeepers for code getting added to
> > LilyPond.
>
> I think Midi to be basically just Jan's work, and I am skeptical that he
> would know the details of the code more intimately than the last few
> persons who worked on it since it's been years since either Jan or
> Han-Wen have significantly added any code to LilyPond.
>
> I would be rather surprised if either kept a secret stack of notes to
> refer to when getting back to LilyPond.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
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