Upon further investigation, I believe this is related to this issue: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2004
Aleksandr On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Aleksandr Andreev <aleksandr.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've been experimenting with what is supported so far for Kievan > notation, and I've run in to some problems generating MIDI output. I > get the following messages at compile time if I add a \midi block: > > warning: cannot find or create new `KievanStaff' > warning: cannot find or create new `KievanVoice' > warning: cannot find or create `Timing' called `' > > Looking at performer-init.ly, I see that VaticanaStaff and > VaticanaVoice have their own Context blocks so that makes me think > that KievanStaff and KievanVoice should be implemented similarly. > > However, if I typeset some Gregorian chant, as in: > > \include "gregorian.ly" > \score { > \new VaticanaStaff > << > \new VaticanaVoice { > \[ c'\melisma a \] > } > >> > \midi { } > \layout { } > } > > I get no MIDI output -- the resulting MIDI file appears to consist of > a few seconds of rests. > > There's probably something I'm not doing right. > > Also, I couldn't find anything about MIDI output with ancient music in > the documentation. > > Help much appreciated as always! > > Aleksandr _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel