[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> My second question is more general: what is the advantage of using MIDI tracks over 
>just one track but multiple voices?  I have it implemented as one track for now, but 
>I notice that most MIDI files seem to have multiple tracks, and I'm not sure what 
>that's supposed to accomplish.
> 

MIDI tracks can serve a lot of porposes in a standard MIDI file. Please
see
<url http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/miditech.htm> covering MIDI from
several
points of view, especially <url
http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midifile.htm>
which hints at how abc non-musical matter (copyright notices, labels,
lyrics, and
so on) could be preserved in an abc-sourced MIDI file.

So far, I've been using abcMIDI to get MIDIs from abc. I'm not quite
sure it
includes the lyrics so as to output karaoke files (I just haven't had
the occasion
to test my MIDIs with karaoke software, but opening them with one
WYSIWYG score
editor or other didn't show the words;  some of the header text appeared
(clipped)
before each staff).

Paulo E. Tib�rcio
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