Re: Does anybody do MIDI splitting?

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mo., 18. Okt. 2021 um 16:14 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> currently entering drum scores for the ensemble I am playing in (getting
> a note-savvy living drummer for regular practice is comparatively
> challenging) and I frequently have the situation that there are large
> pauses in drum play.  At that point in time, I need to cut the MIDI
> file, take everything up to the last note before the pause into one file
> and start the next file on beat 1 (sometimes 3) leading to the next note
> (interestingly, if the next note is on beat 2 or 4 or similar, you still
> need to start on 1 or 3 since otherwise the "drummer" fails to convey
> right away the tempo they as opposed to everyone else is aiming for).
>
> It's cumbersome writing separate variables and scores manually; it would
> be nicer to just drop the cutting points in the middle of the score
> (like in the separate time track) and then some automated thing would
> slice the score into separate scores for MIDI.
>
> Has anybody done anything like that already?
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>

Years ago I made
https://archiv.lilypondforum.de/index.php/topic,2012.msg12471.html#msg12471
Not exactly what you want, maybe a starting point...

Cheers,
  Harm