Ralf Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de> writes: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:46:59 +0200, Nils wrote: > >> >> Yes. 16 sounds because we have 16 channels max. > > No. Channels (as the name implies) are a way to address more than one > sound over a communication channel (used to be a serial cable). Think > of bus architecture. But the OP doesn't need to use cables (who does > these days?). With a decent player you can assign a different sound > to each track (actually you _could_ use up to 16 simultaneous addressable > sounds per track). > >> And you can double two >> horns on one channel but you can't pan one to the left and one to the >> right. So in the end its 16 instruments + tricks like sharing one >> instrument patch for all strings. > > You can do all this _per track_ ....
Patch or it doesn't happen. Seriously: theoretic arguments will not get us far. Whatever the theory might be, it needs to get folded into LilyPond, and the results still have to work under practical circumstances. I have no clue about the Midi area myself. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
