Hm! Muse has voice limit of 8 - maybe I should make it more.
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Voice limit on abc2midi?
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Frishkopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> I've been playing with abc2midi and it is working well, except
for one
Michael> "feature". It seems that the number of voices i(the V:n field)
is
Michael> limited to 9. When I exceed 9 (I've been trying to prepare a
12 voice
Michael> vocal score) then the MIDI output includes all sorts of sounds
I
Michael> didn't anticipate; several lines seem to get converted to
percussion
Michael> sounds. When I delete the last 3 voice and it works. Is this
a
Michael> limitation of abc2midi? The abcguide.txt is a bit ambiguous
about the
Michael> voice number, but implies that perhaps it must be a single
digit. If
Michael> so, is there a way around the problem?
I haven't looked at the code or tested this, but I would try skipping
track 10, which in General MIDI is the percussion track.
That is, instead of numbering them:
V:1
...
V:9
V:10
V:11
say:
V:1
...
V:9
V:11
V:12
Of course superstitious people would skip 13, as well, so you would
end up with the last track being 14 instead of 12.
There are a couple of answers to "How do you encode hidden messages
in ABC?" here. Either do it in the track numbers, or put Morse code
or other suitable encoding on track 10.
I like the track numbers answer. Like those catches where each voice
has innocent lyrics, but if you put them all together there's a dirty
song. You would presumably write it barfly style, and encode it to be
less readable with abcselect.
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