Re: All Ye People Clap your hands (was Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13)

2008-05-06 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I snaffed that music off the lilypond list because I had wanted to have a template exactly like that. It works great on my Windoze XP Pro with lily 2.11.45 using jEdit with lilypond mode. But I get several warnings when it tries to compile. I get the pdf just fine, but the midi is

Re: All Ye People Clap your hands (was Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13)

2008-05-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/5/6 Father Gordon Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But I get several warnings when it tries to compile. I get the pdf just fine, but the midi is stupid (I don't really care, but I'd like to fix it if possible so when I *do* need the midi it will work.) warning: MIDI channel wrapped around

Re: All Ye People Clap your hands (was Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13)

2008-05-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/5/6 Francisco Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MIDI files can not have more than 16 channels, that's why your output gets remapped channels modulo 16 (i.e. starting again from the first channel). You have too much voices, maybe you could make a specia midi block that contains only the

Re: All Ye People Clap your hands (was Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13)

2008-05-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Francisco, your answer is partially relevant here. Yes, there's a limitation of 16 channels in MIDI. In LilyPond, each Staff and Lyrics context will result in a new MIDI channel and since channel 0 is reserved for common information and channel 10 is reserved for percussion, there are only 14

Re: All Ye People Clap your hands (was Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13)

2008-05-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/5/6 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note that LilyPond automatically will use channel 10 only for percussion, so there's no risk for strange drum sounds unless you really want them. Sorry, I didn't know that. Thanks In this particular .ly file The original message did not come