Re: MIDI "volume"

[Heikki Tauriainen]

On Tuesday, 2016-03-08 at 06:35 -0700, Gilberto Agostinho wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Heikki Tauriainen wrote
> > I've observed that LilyPond actually emits CC#7 events to a
> > generated
> > MIDI file on dynamic (MIDI velocity) changes created by the
> > Dynamic_performer, but these CC#7 changes seem to always just set
> > the
> > MIDI volume to 100 (in the range from 0 to 127).  To me this looks
> > like
> > a possible bug (and could be just a remnant of the implementation
> > prior
> > to 2.14), but this is only my personal opinion...
> 
> Yes, this also looks like a possible bug to me, and the point is that
> it's
> quite annoying: for instance, if you import a LilyPond generated MIDI
> file  
> to a DAW and use some VST instruments for playback, all these CC7
> events
> keep overriding any modifications you do to the instrument volumes.
> So you
> can't simply balance the sound in the VST interface, but you have to
> somehow
> edit these CC7 manually for each track, which is a pain...
> 
> Cheers,
> Gilberto
> 

You may be interested to know that there was an attempt to improve this
behavior just a few months ago, see <https://sourceforge.net/p/testlily
issues/issues/4730/>.  The fix has been included in the unstable
releases since 2.19.36.

-- 
Heikki Tauriainen