Re: midi (and ONLY! midi) transposing

[David Kastrup]

Bric <address@hidden> writes:

> For scores with multiple instruments of various tunings, how do you
> tell lilypond to to render midi  with "normalized" pitch (everything
> adjusted to concert pitch, appropriately) — WITHOUT transposing the
> visual, written notes.
>
> E.g., a trumpet part is written a whole tone higher, and you want to
> keep it written that way, but, at the same time, you wanna hear your
> trumpet part sound in tune with its concurrent piano part.

\transposition bes for the trumpet part.

> The way things are right now, one needs to create an additional
> lilypond, containing WRITTEN transposition, to get a score like that
> sounding right.  Or /is/ there are way to do it with a couple of code
> directives?

Anything wrong with LilyPond's documentation here?

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#instrument-transpositions>

-- 
David Kastrup