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Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output
From: |
Christopher Meredith |
Subject: |
Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:38:09 -0500 |
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Peter Chubb
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Meredith <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Christopher> I use chordmode to print the chords above the piano
> Christopher> music, but when rendering the MIDI file, I would prefer
> Christopher> the chords to not be played. Is there a way to have only
> Christopher> the voices (and not the chords) output to MIDI?
>
> It's generally best to have a separate score block for MIDI output, so
> you can unroll repeats and so on --- just leave the chords out of
> that score.
>
> accomp=\chords {c4 f g2:7}
> tune=\relative c'' { c4 c b a}
> \score {
> <<
> \context Chords \accomp
> \context Staff {\key c \major \time 4/4 \tune}
> >>
> \layout{}
> }
> \score {
> \unfoldRepeats <<
> \context Staff {\key c \major \time 4/4 \tune}
> >>
> \midi {}
> }
This is an interesting suggestion, as is the other one. If you'll
forgive my ignorance, what do you mean by "unroll repeats"?