Bernd Warken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If you want different instruments for two voicess, you must put them
> > on different staffs, ie, you probably need a dedicated midi score
> > definition:
>
> That is very bad. So you are forced to write different source files
> for graphical and midi output.
No, in these cases you need just a dedicated midi score block, see my
previous message.
> For example, take J.S.Bach's Art of the Fugue written for four voices,
> usually notated in two staffs for keyboard. It is common to play
> it on piano, organ, but also for string quartett. With making
> midiInstrument a voice property, it is possible to use the two-staff
> score for all kinds of instrument combinations.
Just put each voice on a different midi `staff'. I think the current
mapping of staff->track is the best we can do.
> By usual speaking, a voice is identified as an instrument in music,
> whereas staffs are only an arbitrary notation concept that is not
> inherent to the music.
Well, yes. MIDI sucks. What's new?
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