Re: interrupted notes

[Mats Bengtsson]

Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
> In the following fragment:
>
> << e1 \\ { c4 d e f } >>
>
> When played by a pianist (which I should emphasize, I am not), the e4
> should interrupt the e1 so that it sounds like:
>
> << e2 \\ { c4 d e f } >>
>
> What the midi output currently does is this:
>
> << e1 \\ { c4 d s f } >>
>
> I would like to change Midi_walker::do_start_note to do the former
> (fairly easy).  The question is, should there be an option to do the
> latter?

Probably! Imagine, for example, that you are typesetting an
orchestral piece and this particular music is played by two
flutes, for example. It's common to typeset two flute parts on
a common stave in a printed score and because of the limitation to
16 channels in MIDI, you will typically keep them in the same
stave also in the LilyPond \score{} for the MIDI output (each
Staff context is translated into a MIDI channel, by default).

   /Mats