Sorry - email got cut! Thanks DJF for your detailed example... I really appreciate it. Yes I am very new to LilyPond and still reading the latter parts of the user manuals. But from what you say, it seems like at least visually LilyPond can accomplish a score with different metronome marks for each instrument - and that is a great starting point for me!
By the way, what GUI would you suggest me to use where I can type in the sourcecode and listen to playback without compiling a midi file each time? For the simultaneous midi playback of different metronomes, if (whichever) GUI you suggest to me is an open source progect, then I could try with the help of an experienced programmer to code an option for simultaneous tempi playback. It's been three years since I wrote my last piece for orchestra (using Sibelius) which is no longer accessible for the blind. And out of frustration from not being able to compose since, I started developing a new accessible notation software that did support simultaneous tempi playback. Unfortunately just when things were getting hot my programmer walked out on me. So that's how I thankfully discovered LilyPond which might be a solution for me. But at least from that experience I know that (some way or another) simultaneous playback of different tempi can be possible. Thank you very much again people, and any other suggestion/ tip is super appreciated! Best day, Yakir On 12/14/18, Yakir Arbib <yakirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Thank you very much for your help and suggestions! > > On 12/14/18, Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> On 12/13/18, 5:33 AM, "Yakir Arbib" <yakirar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> My name is Yakir and I'm a pianist / composer based in Paris. >> >> I am very new to LilyPond, so please pardon me if my question is >> annoying or redundant. >> >> I write modern classical music in which each instrument has its' own >> separate tempo. My question is, do you think it's possible to write >> something like that in LilyPond using separate tempo commands for >> each >> staff? >> >> I'm pretty sure you will not be able to accomplish this easily in >> LilyPond. >> It is probably possible by using scaled durations. >> >> Lilypond's basic timing is done in beats. Beats are grouped into >> measures. >> The timing is not done in seconds, or minutes. >> >> So if you want to have one staff at 4/4 and a tempo of 60, with another >> staff at 4/4 and a tempo of 120, you'll probably need to scale the >> durations >> of all the notes in the 120 staff by two, and probably fake the time >> signature (that is, set the time signature to say, 4/2 but display it as >> 4/4). And when you do that, you'll need to reset the beaming rules. >> >> So I think it's doable, but not easily. >> >> HTH, >> >> Carl >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user