> On 27 Apr 2022, at 09:06, Jimmy Wilkinson <the....@twc.com> wrote: > > I’d like to hear a metronome in the MIDI file generated by Lilypond. The best > thing I can think of is to add a new voice that plays some high short note at > the beginning of each beat. I’m hoping that there’s a better (easier?) way > that I haven’t found. It’d be nice if I could just ask Lilypond to do that > and have it affect only the MIDI file and not show in the printed score. > > thanks
Jimmy, The typical solution for that is an additional drum staff with high- and low woodblocks in parallel to the actual music as shown in a snippet of the snippet repository: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=876 <https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=876> Its source code (https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=876 <https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=876>) also shows (in the comments) how to make that drum staff only appear in the MIDI and not in the printed sheet by using a tag for the ‘midiOnly’ drum staff In my use I typically work with transferring final arrangements into lilypond code so that I know the bar-counts, so I don’t use the makeUnfold function defined in that snippet but just use \repeat \unfold as referenced in the comments. Kind regards, Hans
