It may or may not be relevant but I find if I do what have you done I can get it change to sample to a guitar sound. However it doesn't sound like a guitar to me unless I sort out the chord voicing to a guitar inversion as well. This is quite a bit of work so I usually silence the chord names so they are just visual & then write the notes of the chord into the staff if I am that bothered about the midi track.
I can offer some examples & maybe help on this if you think it applies to you. Otherwise I'll just shut up. Steve On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 12:24:25PM +0100, lilyp...@andis59.se wrote: > On 2016-02-06 12:05, Peter Gentry wrote: > > > >I have tried a couple of different instrument names. The chord sound does > >vary but still very much piano like. > > > >\score { > ><< > >\chords { > > \set ChordNames.midiInstrument = #"banjo" > > \myChordsTransposed > >} > > \new FretBoards { > > \set Staff.stringTunings = #ukulele-tuning > > \myChordsTransposed > > } > > > > \relative c'' > > \new Staff { > > \set Staff.midiInstrument = "acoustic guitar (nylon)" > > > > > If you change acoustic guitar (nylon) to banjo and comment out the chords > section you'll hear that the banjo (or any other fretted string instrument) > will sound through your midi player. > > I'm just using the in Windows built in synthesizer so it doesn't sound like > a banjo or acoustic guitar. Chords will sound more like a keyboard/piano > with a slightly different tone. > > So the sound depends on the synthesizer that is used to create them. The > built in software synthesizer in windows is really bad! Don't know which OS > you are using, but there are software synthesizer that give a much better > sound, e.g. Coolsoft Virtual Synth > http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth > > // Anders > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user