Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-05-01 Thread Jacques Menu
>> The pitch to use for \transposition should correspond to the real >> sound heard when a c' written on the staff is played by the >> transposing instrument. This pitch is entered in absolute mode, so an >> instrument that produces a real sound which is one tone higher than >> the printed music s

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-05-01 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
The LPNR: The pitch to use for |\transposition| should correspond to the real sound heard when a |c'| written on the staff is played by the transposing instrument. This pitch is entered in absolute mode, so an instrument that produces a real sound which is one tone higher than the printed m

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-05-01 Thread David Kastrup
Jacques Menu writes: >> Le 1 mai 2019 à 10:01, David Kastrup a écrit : >> >> Jacques Menu writes: >> >>> Unfortunately, \transposition can only be used when the notes are written >>> in « >>> instrument » pitch, not concert pitch. >> >> Says who? > > The LPNR: > > The pitch to use for \tran

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-05-01 Thread Jacques Menu
> Le 1 mai 2019 à 10:01, David Kastrup a écrit : > > Jacques Menu writes: > >> Unfortunately, \transposition can only be used when the notes are written in >> « >> instrument » pitch, not concert pitch. > > Says who? The LPNR: The pitch to use for \transposition should correspond to the r

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-05-01 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi, Am 01.05.19 um 09:55 schrieb Jacques Menu: Unfortunately, \transposition can only be used when the notes are written in « instrument » pitch, not concert pitch. BTW, it could be better named as something like \transposingInstrument, it seems. I started by writing the code to obtain the sa

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-05-01 Thread David Kastrup
Jacques Menu writes: > Unfortunately, \transposition can only be used when the notes are written in « > instrument » pitch, not concert pitch. Says who? > BTW, it could be better named as something like > \transposingInstrument, it seems. Why? > I started by writing the code to obtain the sam

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-05-01 Thread Jacques Menu
Unfortunately, \transposition can only be used when the notes are written in « instrument » pitch, not concert pitch. BTW, it could be better named as something like \transposingInstrument, it seems. I started by writing the code to obtain the same score as the manuscript I’m using, where the f

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-04-30 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Jacques Menu writes: > >> Thanks Lukas and Aaron for your help. >> >> In fact, my use case is merely to listen to the MIDI file from within >> Frescobaldi, to ear-proof the score. I don’t have any MIDI equipment, >> and organ sound is fine for that purpose. >> >> I got th

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-04-30 Thread David Kastrup
Jacques Menu writes: > Thanks Lukas and Aaron for your help. > > In fact, my use case is merely to listen to the MIDI file from within > Frescobaldi, to ear-proof the score. I don’t have any MIDI equipment, > and organ sound is fine for that purpose. > > I got the surprise that transposing a voic

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-04-30 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Aaron, just a question: Did you set "\transposition a"? (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches.html#instrument-transpositions) HTH Jan-Peter Am 30.04.19 um 09:33 schrieb Jacques Menu: > Thanks Lukas and Aaron for your help. > > In fact, my use case is merely

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-04-30 Thread Jacques Menu
Thanks Lukas and Aaron for your help. In fact, my use case is merely to listen to the MIDI file from within Frescobaldi, to ear-proof the score. I don’t have any MIDI equipment, and organ sound is fine for that purpose. I got the surprise that transposing a voice for the oboe d’amore in A, in

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-04-29 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-04-29 9:28 am, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello, I find oboe and french horn, but no oboe d’amore in A.6 MIDI instruments. Which other setting can I use for this instrument in A? General MIDI does not define such an instrument in the standard, and neither did GS nor XG. In fact, the reed

Re: MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-04-29 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Jacques, I find oboe and french horn, but no oboe d’amore in A.6 MIDI instruments. Which other setting can I use for this instrument in A? There’s no clarinet in A either. To be honest, I fail to see the relation between the transposition of an instrument and the MIDI instruments to be u

MIDI instrument for oboe d'amore

2019-04-29 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello, I find oboe and french horn, but no oboe d’amore in A.6 MIDI instruments. Which other setting can I use for this instrument in A? There’s no clarinet in A either. Thanks for your help! JM ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org