R. Mattes wrote: > >> Yes, we have at least three ways of writing midi files now. There are >> at least two theoretical ways of setting many more instruments than 16 >> and we support two (using ports and instrument per track, ignoring >> channel); but as far as I know there are no midi players that handle >> those. > > Both seq24 and qtractor open such files without any problems. >
As I see it, the primary issue here from a user's perspective is that lilypond presents us with a choice between playback limited to 16 channels and going all the way to the other extreme and learning to use complicated sequencer software just to get all the instruments to sound. I don't need fancy software instruments or to tweak the MIDI events lists or anything like that that the pros use sequencer software for. All I want is to be able to route MIDI channels 17-32 to a second MIDI port so that I can get General MIDI playback of all the instruments. If I'm not mistaken, that sort of port routing is possible in a single MIDI file, and is readable to standard MIDI players such as timidity, pmidi and fluidsynth. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/midi-for-orchestral-scores-tp34083696p34088922.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
