Some MIDI questions

2015-03-16 Thread Peter Teeson
My lead sheet is done and now I want to work on the instruments. So my first question is #1 How to I stop the lyrics from appearing in the MIDI file? Ain't Misbehavin v4.ly Description: Binary data Also #2 How do I set the MIDI channel to use - in this case for the vibraphone? (This is becau

Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-16 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:09:18PM -0400, Peter Teeson wrote: > My lead sheet is done and now I want to work on the instruments. > > So my first question is > #1 How to I stop the lyrics from appearing in the MIDI file? When it comes to working with MIDI in lilypond, your best bet is always to p

Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2015-03-17 um 08:09 schrieb Peter Teeson : > My lead sheet is done and now I want to work on the instruments. > > So my first question is > #1 How to I stop the lyrics from appearing in the MIDI file? > > > Also > #2 How do I set the MIDI channel to use - in this case for the vibraphone? >

Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Teeson
Thank you very much for your advice…. I did attach my .ly file and as you can see I had already made use of variables. But I didn't think of two separate scores - thanks for that idea. You help is truly appreciated but before posting I had already gone through all the MIDI Notation, Learning and

Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Teeson
Thank you very much for your examples. I looked at them and a lot of it is beyond my present knowledge. But the link to the Internals documentation for MIDI has been bookmarked. < http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/midi_005fcontrol_005ffunction_005fperformer> respect…. Pe

Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:04:52AM -0400, Peter Teeson wrote: [...] > But I didn't see anything about being able to choose the MIDI channel > for a specific instrument. All that it says is: > "The MIDI output allocates a channel for each staff, and reserves channel 10 > for drums. > There are on