Hi Thomas,
thank you very much, that was helpful.
Werner
Am Freitag, den 18.01.2019, 22:25 +0100 schrieb Thomas Morley:
> Am Fr., 18. Jan. 2019 um 11:01 Uhr schrieb Werner Arnhold
> <wer...@arnhold-berlin.de>:
> >
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I often need to have Midi output with different volume or instruments in
> > some voices. Here an example:
> >
> > \version "2.18.2"
> >
> > global = {
> > \key c \major
> > \time 4/4
> > }
> >
> > soprannoten = \relative c'' {
> > g e e2 f4 d d2
> > }
> >
> > altnoten = \relative c'' {
> > c2 g g2 b4 f
> > }
> >
> > \score {
> > \new ChoirStaff <<
> > \new Staff <<
> > \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Sopran"
> > \new Voice = "sopran" <<
> > \set midiInstrument = #"flute"
> > \global
> > \soprannoten
> > >>
> > >>
> > \new Staff <<
> > \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Alt"
> > \new Voice = "alt" <<
> > \set midiInstrument = #"violin"
> > \global
> > \altnoten
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > \layout{}
> > \midi{
> > \tempo 4 = 80
> > \context {
> > \Staff
> > \remove "Staff_performer"
> > }
> > \context {
> > \Voice
> > \consists "Staff_performer"
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > This works fine. Now I tried to separate the "\context" parts in the
> > midi section like
> >
> > verschiedene_stimmen = {
> > \context \Staff \remove "Staff_performer"
> > \context \Voice \consists "Staff_performer"
> > }
> >
> > score {
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > \midi{
> > \verschiedene_stimmen
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Lilypond complains about unvalid escape sequence "\Staff" at the Place
> > of the definition, unexpected "\remove" and so on. That happens even if
> > I do not call the defined macro in the midi section.
> >
> > What will be the reason and how can I make it better. I intend to
> > collect such often used constructs in a separate file.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Werner
>
> Hi Werner,
>
> looking at your example, there is no need to move "Staff_performer" at all.
> Just set midiInstrument in Staff, You could do so with \set
> Staff.midiInstrument
> But this is done better in \with { ... }, otherwise it may happen you
> meet issue 34 in some cases. Same for instrumentName.
>
> Only if you have more than one Voice per Staff moving
> "Staff_performer" would make sense.
>
> To store the settings in a callable variable you could do:
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> soprannoten = \relative c'' {
> g e e2 f4 d d2
> }
>
> altnoten = \relative c'' {
> c2 g g2 b4 f
> }
>
> verschiedene_stimmen_midi = \midi {
> \context { \Staff \remove "Staff_performer" }
> \context { \Voice \consists "Staff_performer" }
> }
>
> \score {
> \new ChoirStaff <<
> \new Staff <<
> \new Voice = "sopran" \with { midiInstrument = #"flute" }
> { \voiceOne \soprannoten }
> \new Voice = "alt" \with { midiInstrument = #"violin" }
> { \voiceTwo \altnoten }
> >>
> >>
> \layout{}
> \midi {
> \verschiedene_stimmen_midi
> %% needs to be called after 'verschiedene_stimmen_midi'
> \tempo 4 = 80
> }
> }
>
> HTH,
> Harm
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