Hi Andrew, On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 5:03 PM Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi David, > > That's one view, but I have been using LilyPond for professional > engraving for years and I am now moving into MIDI for generation of > MIDI as the principal end output, for film scores and so on. That's a > valid musical compositional use case. The engraved score is _not_ > always the principal object. So far more than mere proofing, I am > (perhaps naively) attempting to use LilyPond to produce performance > quality MIDI and I have discovered with no disrespect to anybody > whatsoever that it is not the right tool for the job. So be it. But > tools like Dorico exist (as you say) and a large part of the target > market for that program is in fact film scoring and it comes with full > MIDI support and a large library of VST instruments. I don't suppose > MIDI in LilyPond will be raised to that level, and I am critically > aware of the lack of development resources for LilyPond. But this is > nowadays an important matter to me that it may be the final stimulus > to move to Dorico, at least for this aspect of my work. Nothing wrong > with having many tools in the toolchest. But it would be great in the > future to have more and better MIDI support. I no longer regard it as > a small feature on the side, but something I really need. For now, I > will stick to outputting my New Complexity School scores - which > Dorico has trouble with! :-) > > > Andrew >
I think an important step in the process would be to make the MIDI backend somehow accessible from Scheme. Then the power users would be all over it. David N. > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 04:07, David Rogers <davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > OK, after three tries, now I know my own opinion: If it would take > > “real work” to make unfolded repeats for MIDI, then I’d wish that > > time and effort had been spent on other Lilypond issues instead. > > And if working on MIDI would turn into a distraction, or would > > “open a can of worms”, then IMO it wouldn’t be worth it. There > > certainly is software out there for creating > > artistically-orchestrated MIDI. > > >
