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Re: can MIDI support voice?
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David Raleigh Arnold |
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Re: can MIDI support voice? |
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Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:58:41 -0400 |
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On Monday 31 May 2004 08:51 pm, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 08:48:48 -0400
>
> Ting Gan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I came upone a problem with MIDI files. I have a piece of
> > music which has a voice and a piano part. The MIDI file which
> > lilypond file output to does not play the voice(singing) part. It
> > just plays the melody, not the lyrics. Does anyone know if MIDI
> > plays voice? Thank you all.
>
> No, MIDI doesn't support voice.
It does provide for displaying lyrics as text on the screen.
It should be possible to play voice using a reading program.
I don't know of any effort to do that, but that means nothing.
MIDI is a format. There is information in a midi file which
in theory could be used to sing lyrics. Therefore, MIDI could
be said to "support" it, if it ever is done. ;-) daveA
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