Hi Tina, Your right - it was the grace note confusing me. I assumed logical time was wall time :-)
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html This gives me the durations I expect in midi. 8th note triplets 1/3. \tuplet 3/2 { d8\3 e\2 a\1 } \tuplet 3/2 { c8\1 a\1 e\2 } \tuplet 3/2 { g8\2 a8\1 e8\2 } \tuplet 3/2 { d8\3 c\3 a\4s } This is what I'm looking to see on the score - is there a way to show bends without using grace notes? Best Lee [image: riff with bends.png] On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 at 14:32, Tina Petzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lee, > > I am not sure what issue you have. Am I correct that you have an issue > with > MIDI output? > > > I'm using a hidden grace note to do this - I assume that is valid. I > > expected to see rhythm of 1/3 for all 3 notes. It's very close but the > > first two triplets seem wrong. The third is correct and that was a whole > > note bend. The 4th triplet is correct too. > > > > I'm pretty sure grace notes don't form part of rythym - I'm using grace > > note for full note bend, 1/4 note bend. You'll see the midi I collected > > below the ly file. > > Grace notes are played back before the beat in MIDI, and will thus shorten > the > played duration of the previous note. Also I am not sure what you mean by > `0.2516th`. Would that be a note of roughly 4 whole bars? Also do you not > find > the grace notes in the MIDI output? > > Best regards, > Tina
