Re: Changing and playing a different instrument in MIDI

[Gilles]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:51:52 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't have much experience with MIDI. I just tried all the media
> players on OS X and realized than only QuickTime Player 7 had some
> very very basic support for playing MIDI files (I cannot even make it
> play loud enough, let alone do anything else with it). None of the
> others I have installed worked (VLC, MPlayerX, QuickTime Player,
> RealPlayer, ...)
>
> So I went on and made a package for TiMidity++ and freepats.
>
> The problem is: I'm still unable to figure out how to change the
> instrument to anything but Piano.
>
>
> Here's a minimal example:
>
> \score {
>   \new PianoStaff
>   <<
>     \new Voice = "melody" \fixed c'
>     {
>       \set midiInstrument = #"accordion"
>       \time 3/4
>       f4 g a
>     }
>   >>
>   \midi{ \tempo 4 = 100 }
> }
>
> But this doesn't help me in any way.

\set Staff.midiInstrument = "accordion"

HTH,
Gilles

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