Hi,
I never quite liked the way a MIDI instrument is assigned to a
staff or voice in Lilypond. You are forced to use the exact names for
the midiInstrument property that are hardcoded in midi.scm
Why is this a problem: 1. I can't remember the names without the manual.
My brains are getting old I guess ;-) ( "piano 2" ? "bright piano" ?
"upright piano" ? Wrong! The correct name is "bright acoustic" )
2. The names are only correct when the MIDI file is played on a General
Midi (GM) compatible soundcard, soundfont, synthesizer, or soundmodule.
MIDI is more than just GM.
One solution that would already make me happy: It would be nice if
instruments could also be selected by number (1-128, or 0-127). Would it
be difficult to add some code to (I guess) midi.scm that would change the
behaviour from current behaviour:
if instrumentname is wrong ... then instrumentname = "acoustic grand"
to:
if instrumentname is wrong then
if instrumentname is a number between "0" and "127"
pick the correct name from the list
else
instrumentname = "acoustic grand"
This is not real code, but I hope you get the idea.
Maybe someone can translate this into scheme ? Or maybe someone has a much
better idea ?
Martin
P.S. This still would not be THE complete midi solution. Someone in an
earlier thread already mentioned the lack of support for the MIDI
bank change command.
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