Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-29 Thread ArnoldTheresius
, e.g. timidity. So, I would say, this can only be a far goal for the future. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/midi-for-orchestral-scores-tp34083696p34090646.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Nils
Shevek s...@saultobin.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone has developed a good workflow for dealing with midi playback for scores using more than 16 instruments. I've been playing around with the various options for midiChannelMapping and playback programs, but I can't seem to figure out a

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Nils l...@nilsgey.de wrote: I thought maybe the simplest way would be to make, for example, a midi file for the wind parts, and a midi file for the string parts, and then play them simultaneously to two separate midi ports, but I can't seem to figure out how

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread David Kastrup
Brett McCoy idragos...@gmail.com writes: For a horn, I will have this for the notes: hornOneF = \transpose c g \relative c' { \global % Music follows here. ... } [...] \new Voice = horn 1 { \voiceOne \transpose g c \hornOneF } It makes more sense to put

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:01 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: It makes more sense to put \transposition g' into the horn part itself (but leave the \transpose c g for the horn part in place).  Then you don't need to retranspose the Midi afterwards: it will be in sounding pitch anyway.

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mattes
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:36:59 +0200, Nils wrote: Shevek s...@saultobin.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone has developed a good workflow for dealing with midi playback for scores using more than 16 instruments. I've been playing around with the various options for midiChannelMapping and

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread David Kastrup
Ralf Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de writes: On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:36:59 +0200, Nils wrote: We are dealing with midi here, that means 16 instruments max. at each given time. Are we? Since when can Lilypond talk Midi? IIRC Lily does produce Midi files (Format 1, to be precise) and those can

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mattes
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:23:01 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Ralf Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de writes: On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:36:59 +0200, Nils wrote: We are dealing with midi here, that means 16 instruments max. at each given time. Are we? Since when can Lilypond talk Midi? IIRC Lily does

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Ralf Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: But that page only describes Midi channel mappings (meaning: how to map a channel to a sound). This has nothing to do with Midi files - a midi file (format 1) can hold up to 65,535 tracks. Just follow the link to the main

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Nils
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:04:01 + (UTC) Ralf Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:36:59 +0200, Nils wrote: Shevek s...@saultobin.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone has developed a good workflow for dealing with midi playback for scores using more than 16

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nils writes: Yes. 16 sounds because we have 16 channels max. 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. Yes, we have at least three ways of

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mattes
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

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mattes
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:07:40 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Nils writes: Yes. 16 sounds because we have 16 channels max. 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

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread David Kastrup
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

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Ralf Mattes
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:35:10 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: 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

Re: midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-28 Thread Shevek
General MIDI playback of all the instruments. If I'm not mistaken, that sort of port routing is possible in a single MIDI file, and is readable to standard MIDI players such as timidity, pmidi and fluidsynth. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/midi-for-orchestral-scores

midi for orchestral scores

2012-06-27 Thread Shevek
, and a midi file for the string parts, and then play them simultaneously to two separate midi ports, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the files to play in sync. Suggestions? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/midi-for-orchestral-scores-tp34083696p34083696.html Sent