Thank you all for additional information. I thought I was missing something very simple.
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 2:17 AM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi Carl; > > > > When I try this tremolo with the colons, it displays fine, but midi > > sounds as if there is no abbreviation. Of course, I see that the colon > > syntax is not supported for midi with Lilypond. > > > > So I try the same with the \repeat tremolo syntax, it displays fine, > > but the midi sounds as if there is no abbreviation. It does say that > > midi should be supported by the \repeat tremolo syntax, but I'm not > > experiencing that. > > > > So, what am I doing wrong? (Mac, Apple Silicon, homebrew Lilypond). > > The default MIDI does not implement tremolo. \repeat tremolo can be > expanded using \unfoldRepeats and colon notation can be expanded using > the \articulate music function from articulate.ly . > > Long tremolo passages like drum rolls can gain structure from employing > the very recent Beat_performer , changing a homogenuous machine gun > pattern into a structured machine gun pattern. Which considerably > improves the value as practice material though it does not really make > it performance quality. > > In short: you are doing nothing wrong, LilyPond's default behavior is > insufficient but there are a few aids available for getting something > better out. > > -- > David Kastrup
