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Re: midi for orchestral scores
From: |
Ralf Mattes |
Subject: |
Re: midi for orchestral scores |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:13:26 +0000 (UTC) |
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Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) |
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:35:10 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Ralf Mattes <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:46:59 +0200, Nils wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yes. 16 sounds because we have 16 channels max.
>>
>> No. Channels (as the name implies) are a way to address more than one
>> sound over a communication channel (used to be a serial cable). Think
>> of bus architecture. But the OP doesn't need to use cables (who does
>> these days?). With a decent player you can assign a different sound to
>> each track (actually you _could_ use up to 16 simultaneous addressable
>> sounds per track).
>>
>>> And you can double two
>>> horns on one channel but you can't pan one to the left and one to the
>>> right. So in the end its 16 instruments + tricks like sharing one
>>> instrument patch for all strings.
>>
>> You can do all this _per track_ ....
>
> Patch or it doesn't happen.
??? But it already _does_ happen ;-)
Just add
\set Score.midiChannelMapping = #'instrument
to your score definition and you get a track per instrument.
Now it _would_ be nice if Staff.instrumentName would somehow end
up in the midi track name (so assigning instruments to the track in
the player/sequencer would be easier)
N.B.: you can of course assign 'Staff.midiInstrument' but that lets
you only specify GM instrument names, which IMVHO are absolutely
inappropriate for anything but,erm, 80th midi musak .... ;-)
Cheers, RalfD
> Seriously: theoretic arguments will not get us far. Whatever the theory
> might be, it needs to get folded into LilyPond, and the results still
> have to work under practical circumstances.
>
> I have no clue about the Midi area myself.
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, (continued)
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, Nils, 2012/06/28
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2012/06/28
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, Ralf Mattes, 2012/06/28
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, Shevek, 2012/06/28
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, ArnoldTheresius, 2012/06/29
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, Ralf Mattes, 2012/06/28
- Re: midi for orchestral scores, David Kastrup, 2012/06/28
- Re: midi for orchestral scores,
Ralf Mattes <=