Hello all. I understand the basics to Lilypond, but I am still very new to it.
I am working on a song that has a lot of different percussive instruments playing at once, and I was hoping I could transfer it to Lilypond to produce some good looking sheet music as well as a MIDI file. So far I have entered the first four measures of a cowbell part. The pdf file is produced just fine, but when I attempt to create a MIDI file I get this error message: error: cannot open for write: /Users/D-Flo/Documents/Lilypond/LatinPercussion/LatinPercussion.mid: Permission denied Here are the contents of my .ly file: \version "2.12.2" \header { title = "Percussion Song" composer = "Dan Florio" } Cowbell = \drums { cb16 r r8 cb4 cb8 cb cb16 r cb8 cb cb cb16 r cb r cb8 cb cb16 r cb8 cb16 r r8 cb4 cb8 cb cb16 r cb8 cb cb cb16 r cb r cb8 cb cb16 r cb8 } \score { << \Cowbell >> \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 275 4) } } \layout { } } I'm sure there is a lot wrong with my .ly file, as I am a total noob with this software, so any advice in that respect would be greatly appreciated (proper way to format, easier or better way to do what I'm doing...etc). Is this just a case of MIDI not liking my cowbell? I tested this out with four quarter notes on the cowbell and the MIDI worked just fine. Once I typed in the actual part with all of the eighth and sixteenth notes, I get the error message. Thanks all. -Dan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Permission-denied-due-to-MIDI-with-percussion-tp25249125p25249125.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user