Re: A Midi question

[Guy Stalnaker]

Not saying this will work because I don't know your code, but can you 
use polyphonic voices to add the nuances/pedal marking variables (if 
you're not already using them)? Thinking here that the nuance directives 
are made a part of the resulting polyphonic music.

You can create one score for your present printout (no midi output) and 
a second that uses the polyphonic voices with midi output. I'm thinking 
of this:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/explicitly-instantiating-voices

This code illustrates what I'm talking about. I confirm that using << { 
} \\ { } >> does NOT produce the desired output. But instantiating the 
second voice DOES produce midi with dynamic changes.

It might look ugly with a lot more notes, and you might get a lot of 
error output for note column issues, but the midi may be just fine.

%% snippet %%
%% \notePartI does NOT work
%% \notePartII DOES work

\version "2.19"
\language "english"

\header {
  title = "Testing"
  tagline = ##f
}

global = {
  \time 4/4
  \tempo 4 = 80
}

nuance = {
  s2\p s2\mp |
  s2\mf s2\f |
  s2\mf s2\mp |
  s2\> s2\!
}

notes = {
  e'8 d' c' d' e' e' e'4 |
  d'8 d' d'4 e'8 g' g'4 |
  e'8 d' c' d' e' e' e' e' |
  d' d' e' d' c'2 \bar "||"
}

notesPartI = \new Staff {
  \global <<
    { \notes } \\
    { \nuance }
  >>
}

notesPartII = \new Staff {
  \global <<
    { \voiceOne \notes }
    \new voice { \voiceTwo \nuance }
  >>
}

\score {
 <<
 \notesPartI
 >>
 \layout { }
 \midi {
 }
}

\score {
 <<
 \notesPartII
 >>
 \layout { }
 \midi {
 }
}


On 9/11/18 5:15 PM, foxfanfare wrote:
> Mr Tim wrote
> > A friend of mine uses Anvil Studio for midi on Windows. I think they have
> > a free version, but even the premium is not much.
> Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately Anvil Studio isn't cross-platform. I
> should have been more specific, but I'm looking for something which could
> also work with linux in the future.
>
> So I guess there is no solution for my first problem than re-write all the
> nuances and pedal markings with the notes input instead of variables if I
> want to improve the audio output?
>
>
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