"midi2ly converts tracks into Staff and channels into Voice contexts"
so make your midi-file contain all music on a single channel should result in a single voice apparently, given the results, your midi is currently 4 channels with music regards, Hans > On 5 Jan 2021, at 12:26, Stephan Schöll <mu...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a self-recorded/-created midi file which I have quantized and > simplified to death (lengths and durations to 1/16, no overlaps). Let's > assume it's the the left hand part of a piano score. Now I want to > convert it to a lilypond file using > > midi2ly.py -d 16 -s 16 -o "<path to file>\MITM_Piano_LH.ly" "<path to > file>\MITM_Piano_LH.mid" > > This works without errors on the command line. But lilypond generates 4 > voices and distributes the notes all over these voices which is a mess. > I optimized the midi file in a way that midi2ly might simply produce one > voice. > > How can I tell midi2ly to create only one voice? I couldn't find any > helping hint in the documentation > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/invoking-midi2ly.en.html. > > Best Regards > Stephan >
