Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 28 septembre 2023 à 13:14 +0200, David Kastrup a écrit : > A quick `git grep lilymidi` confirms that there is is no documentation > for lilymidi.  Zero, zilch, nada. > > It is installed with other binaries and is used by > elisp/lilypond-song.el (but what for?). There is this comment

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-28 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > Yes, like lilymidi --pretty, the evidence that there was silence > at the beginning of the file is circumstantial, necessitating that > the OP believed I sat through the 160 seconds of silence before > any notes were played. > > BTW where is the output of lilymidi

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 10:22:04 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 01:13:09 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with > >> LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots of silence and four C notes at the

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Cole writes: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 8:28 AM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> Le mercredi 27 septembre 2023 à 08:22 -0400, Kevin Cole a écrit : >> > And... we have a winner! It's a timidity problem! >> >> From what I can read, it is the expected behavior of timidity, but there >> is a

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Le mercredi 27 septembre 2023 à 08:22 -0400, Kevin Cole a écrit : >> And... we have a winner! It's a timidity problem! > > > From what I can read, it is the expected behavior of timidity, but there > is a --preserve-silence option to change it. I don't have timidity

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 8:28 AM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le mercredi 27 septembre 2023 à 08:22 -0400, Kevin Cole a écrit : > > And... we have a winner! It's a timidity problem! > > From what I can read, it is the expected behavior of timidity, but there > is a --preserve-silence option to change

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mercredi 27 septembre 2023 à 08:22 -0400, Kevin Cole a écrit : > And... we have a winner! It's a timidity problem! From what I can read, it is the expected behavior of timidity, but there is a --preserve-silence option to change it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 8:04 AM David Kastrup wrote: What is apparent is that it may be a bad idea to first pause a number of > bars and only then include \global with a different \tempo . > Oops. Good catch. Thanks. But the location of the tempo change aside your principal problem, like >

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Cole writes: > I just tried it again with the attached, and still do not get "The Sound of > Silence" ;-) > > $ cat mwe.ly > \version "2.24.2" > \language "english" > global = { > \time 4/4 > \key f \major > \tempo 4=150 > } > PartFour = \relative a { > \global > \clef "treble" >

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2023-09-27 4:20 am, Kevin Cole wrote: I just tried it again with the attached, and still do not get "The Sound of Silence" ;-) $ cat mwe.ly \version "2.24.2" \language "english" global = { \time 4/4 \key f \major \tempo 4=150 } PartFour = \relative a { \global \clef "treble"

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread Kevin Cole
I just tried it again with the attached, and still do not get "The Sound of Silence" ;-) $ cat mwe.ly \version "2.24.2" \language "english" global = { \time 4/4 \key f \major \tempo 4=150 } PartFour = \relative a { \global \clef "treble" \partial 4 a4 } \score { \new Voice =

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 01:13:09 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: >> After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with >> LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots of silence and four C notes at the end. > > I did the same, and I attach a screenshot of audacious

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 01:13:09 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with > LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots of silence and four C notes at the end. I did the same, and I attach a screenshot of audacious playing the file, called mid.midi.

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-26 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Sep 2023 at 18:52:52 (-0400), Kevin Cole wrote: > Once again, I'm flummoxed by some syntax problem... I was hoping for 40 > measures of silence, as I plan to mix it with other parts, and want to be > able to mute parts interactively. However the following doesn't give me 40 > measures of

Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-26 Thread Jean Abou Samra
After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots of silence and four C notes at the end. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Initial rests in MIDI not included?

2023-09-26 Thread Kevin Cole
Once again, I'm flummoxed by some syntax problem... I was hoping for 40 measures of silence, as I plan to mix it with other parts, and want to be able to mute parts interactively. However the following doesn't give me 40 measures of silence, but starts right in on PartTwo. What have I missed THIS