Maurizio Tomasi wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Yes, this is a long-standing bug, which occurs when you don't specify any absolute dynamics before having a crescendo/diminuendo. The problem is that LilyPond doesn't set any default volume to start with. Actually, if you have a score without any dynamics at all, the MIDI file will not contain any dynamics settings either, so you get the default for the MIDI device you use.
/Mats
Now I understand. Well, I shall try to cope with this.
This makes me think of some nice features for Lilypond 4.0 (!). It could be useful to turn off crescendi performance when there is no dynamic sign. A simpler solution would be a Scheme command to turn on/off the MIDI performance of hairpins. Or, perhaps even simpler (and more consistent), to completely disable velocity changes in the MIDI output, something like #(use-midi-dynamics #f).
No problem to do in the current versions, just remove the modules in LilyPond that handle the hairpins and absolute dynamics: (for version 2.2)
\midi{
\context{
\VoiceContext
\remove "Span_dynamic_performer"
\remove "Dynamic_performer"
}
}The MIDI contexts are less documented than the paper contexts, so if you want to learn about the default setup, you have to read the /usr/share/lilypond/*.*.*/ly/performer-init.ly file.
/Mats
The reason for this (apparently) strange request is, I use MIDI output only as a tool to check my scores. But it is annoying when there is a \p immediately following a \f, because the \p music is hardly audible, and I often miss wrong notes (and this happens quite often in classical music). In this case it would be very useful for me to completely disable the interpretation of dynamics.
I do not know if this is simple to implement: it's just some thoughts. The real problem is, there are a lot of crescendi in late XIX-century music (e.g. Brahms) that are not associated with dynamics.
Maurizio.
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