Re: Arbitrary MIDI

2020-02-23 Thread Cam
ld be good to change some day, but that's a long-term perspective without currently ongoing or even started work, and without a Scheme way into _any_ Midi, generating arbitrary Midi bytes just does not appear to make a lot of sense as they could not be usefully serialised. One could conceiv

Re: Arbitrary MIDI

2020-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
ork around. The Midi backend is pure C++, not accessible to Scheme programming and not even using Scheme garbage collection. That would be good to change some day, but that's a long-term perspective without currently ongoing or even started work, and without a Scheme way into _any_ Midi, g

Re: Arbitrary MIDI

2020-02-22 Thread Cam
David, Thanks for the quick reply. At least your answer is clear and unequivocal :) I will work around. Cheers Cam On 2020-02-22 9:22 p.m., David Kastrup wrote: Cam writes: Is there any way to inject arbitrary bytes of data into the stream of generated MIDI? No. There are times this w

Re: Arbitrary MIDI

2020-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
Cam writes: > Is there any way to inject arbitrary bytes of data into the stream of > generated MIDI? No. > There are times this would be convenient. You'll probably need a Midi sequencer or processor to get this done with LilyPond output. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause

Arbitrary MIDI

2020-02-22 Thread Cam
Is there any way to inject arbitrary bytes of data into the stream of generated MIDI? There are times this would be convenient. Thanks Cam