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Re: Suppressing a voice in the midi output
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Sandro Santilli |
Subject: |
Re: Suppressing a voice in the midi output |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:43:32 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:41:26AM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:56:22PM +0100, Karsten Reincke wrote:
> > Dear friends;
> >
> > In the LilyPOnd tutorial I found the explanation how to assign each a voice
> > a
> > separate midi channel = instrument
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/creating-midi-files
> >
> > Unfortunately, I have to prevent one / some voice(s) from being ingrated
> > into the
> > midi file (because it only contains meta information which shall not be
> > played).
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can say that voice X shall not be converted into the
> > midi
> > file? Or does any know how I could assign this voice 'a silent instrument'?
>
> Would setting volume to zero be ok for your use case ? If so, try
> something like the following:
>
> \new Staff \with {
> midiInstrument = "muted trumpet"
> midiMinimumVolume = #0.0
> midiMaximumVolume = #0.0
> } {
> \new Voice = "vocal" { \melody }
> }
Or simply create a different "book" for the midi, and only include
the voices you want... I often do this also because I want to
\unfoldRepeats and maybe add a \tripletFeel and most significantly
because I'm using transposed instruments which then need to be
transposed for the sake of MIDI output but not for reading...
--strk;