Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Oct 2016 at 16:41:31 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > 4.) What's the proper way to write the following: > > > > c4 4 4 > > > > when c's duration is actually "2." (a single button press) and d's > > duration is "2" (again a single button press)? Should one draw c2. or > > t

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Oct 2016 at 22:39:28 (+0200), Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 15 October 2016 at 01:01, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > > >> 2.) Sometimes I have a very simple repeat pattern, say, part A repeats > >> four times. > >> The only difference is that the third time "c2." gets replaced by "c2 >

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Oct 2016 at 07:36:41 (+0200), Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you very much for some very useful suggestion. I'll reply to the > rest later, but I have one "objection" (I could probably have > mentioned that in my first post): > > On 15 October 2016 at 01:22, Flaming Hakama by Ela

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread David Kastrup
Mojca Miklavec writes: > Thank you very much for the example. I compiled it, but the output > doesn't look too appealing to me. > > But you gave me the idea how to do it with two voices. For the visual > part I decided to use something like the following: > > << > { > 2.~ | >

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 15 October 2016 at 01:01, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > >> 2.) Sometimes I have a very simple repeat pattern, say, part A repeats >> four times. >> The only difference is that the third time "c2." gets replaced by "c2 >> c4" somewhere in the middle due to an additional syllable in the >> lyr

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, Thank you very much for some very useful suggestion. I'll reply to the rest later, but I have one "objection" (I could probably have mentioned that in my first post): On 15 October 2016 at 01:22, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > >> Is there a way to make this both appear correctly and play c

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> 4.) What's the proper way to write the following: > > c4 4 4 > > when c's duration is actually "2." (a single button press) and d's > duration is "2" (again a single button press)? Should one draw c2. or > three c4, connected with a tie/slur? > I think there are different approaches to this

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> 3.) I sometimes want to write repeats as | 1,3 | 2 | 4 | > > Is there any better way than the following? > > \alternative { > { > \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "1, 3")) > ... > } > { > ... > } > { > \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "4") end-repeat) > ...

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> 2.) Sometimes I have a very simple repeat pattern, say, part A repeats > four times. > The only difference is that the third time "c2." gets replaced by "c2 > c4" somewhere in the middle due to an additional syllable in the > lyrics. > > a) What's the correct way to visually represent that? Drawi

Re: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> From: Mojca Miklavec > Subject: Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files > Hi, > > I have some simple beginner's questions about different aspects of > repeats, mostly from the perspective of creating proper MIDI files. > > 1.) Let's as

Beginner's questions about long repeats & MIDI files

2016-10-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I have some simple beginner's questions about different aspects of repeats, mostly from the perspective of creating proper MIDI files. 1.) Let's assume that the song has one of the following patterns Intro-A1-A2-B1-B2-A1-A2-A3 Intro-A1-A2-B1-B2-A1-A2-B1-B3 A1 = part A with the first endin