Hi Aaron, just a question: Did you set "\transposition a"? (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches.html#instrument-transpositions)
HTH Jan-Peter Am 30.04.19 um 09:33 schrieb Jacques Menu: > Thanks Lukas and Aaron for your help. > > In fact, my use case is merely to listen to the MIDI file from within > Frescobaldi, to ear-proof the score. I don’t have any MIDI equipment, and > organ sound is fine for that purpose. > > I got the surprise that transposing a voice for the oboe d’amore in A, in > Lully’s « Dormez beaux yeux » for the needs of our oboes band, lead to quite > modern music being heard... > > What would best suit my need is a way to counter-balance the effect of > \transpose in the \midi block. This way, one would get both the printed score > and the MIDI pitches alright, even for instruments unknown to standard MIDI. > > Can that be done? > > JM > >> Le 29 avr. 2019 à 20:53, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> a écrit : >> >> On 2019-04-29 9:28 am, Jacques Menu wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I find oboe and french horn, but no oboe d’amore in A.6 MIDI instruments. >>> Which other setting can I use for this instrument in A? >> >> General MIDI does not define such an instrument in the standard, and neither >> did GS nor XG. In fact, the reed section of GM Level 2 has no extended >> patches at all. (GS and XG do have variations like the "bass clarinet" and >> some alternate saxophone patches.) >> >> While it would not be standards-compliant, you could certainly select an >> alternate bank for the oboe patch with the intention that it means an oboe >> d'amore. For your own usage, it would require you to manually configure >> your synth to load a suitable sound for the instrument. For other folks >> using your MIDI file, their synths should fall back using a standard oboe >> patch which might work, except for lower notes that could be outside the >> playable range. >> >> From what I understand, an oboe d'amore has a timbre between the normal oboe >> and the cor anglais. What I would do in my virtual instrument software is >> load up an oboe patch but then apply some EQ to soften the sound a bit so it >> is not quite as assertive. For the fact that the playable range is lower, I >> might also need to mix in a little of the English horn patch to fill out the >> lower notes, which will require blending to balance the timbre. But it must >> be noted that this work is beyond the scope of MIDI. >> >>> There’s no clarinet in A either. >> >> For better or worse, a "clarinet in A" is simply a clarinet as far as >> General MIDI is concerned. In MIDI you typically specify the pitch you want >> played, not the note that is written that may sound higher or lower >> depending on the instrument. As such, MIDI note 60 would most often refer >> to the equal-tempered middle C whose fundamental is approximately 261.63 Hz, >> and one should expect that any GM-compliant synth to render the pitch >> properly. That said, I have encountered some sound libraries that >> intentionally transpose samples from their nominal pitches; and that >> requires manually transposing a MIDI track to compensate. I dislike this >> practice as it is not very portable. >> >> >> -- Aaron Hill >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
