Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Patrick,
Unfortunate that the midi is by default commented out or else you
could also do:
\new Staff \with { instrumentName= "Violin I" midiInstrument="violin" }
and get the midi to sound right.
Why can't this be done with the MIDI commented out?
Works fine for me (i.e., doesn't throw any errors when compiling)…
You're completely right. It was just strange to me conceptually to put
in a specification of a midiIntrument when midi wasn't on. I really
like the idea and hope you use it.
Theres no point of showing them how to do \midi without showing them
how to set the instruments.
I disagree with this statement — the templates are NOT tutorials!
No, you're right, but they will often be used for that! It's a pet
peeve of mine that when you turn on midi for strings, if you don't
specify the instrument the midi output sounds terrible--it's not
legato. For the same reason, when using the midi output to learn a
voice part, I set the instrument to some string so it will sound more
like a voice. It seems most midi output programs, when no instrument is
specified defaults to piano.
Kieren.
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