Re: Quarter tones and MIDI

2024-10-30 Thread Michael Gerdau
Doing this from memory (don’t take it as authoritative!) but I seem to recall that channel pitch bend is a property of Midi 2.0. You‘ll have a hard time finding a synth pre Midi 2.0 that does what you want. Kind regards Michael Mobil gesendet > Am 30.10.2024 um 23:38 schrieb msk...@ansuz.soo

Re: Quarter tones and MIDI

2024-10-30 Thread mskala
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > own specific use case. It may be that what I need to do is implement my own > postprocessing for that rather than trying to do it natively in Lilypond. Further to this: after doing some more experiments, I've found that the synthesizer I wa

Re: Quarter tones and MIDI

2024-10-30 Thread mskala
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, Graham Breed wrote: > It's possible to use post-processing to convert the pitch bends into MIDI > Tuning Standard messages. These can be understood by Timidity and potentially > FluidSynth and hopefully others. More details and scripts here: > > http://x31eq.com/lilypond/ T

Re: Quarter tones and MIDI

2024-10-30 Thread Graham Breed
First: quarter tones are implemented by emitting the nearest 12-ET note and a quarter-tone pitch bend if applicable, so that for instance cih' (quarter tone sharper than Middle C) is MIDI note 60 (c') with a +50 cent pitch bend. And MIDI pitch bends affect the entire channel; so if there are two

Re: Quarter tones and MIDI

2024-10-30 Thread mskala
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Yes, that's a known limitation and drawback of LilyPond's microtonality > implementation. Some time ago, I managed to change this in a local > branch of mine (cf. Thanks for the response. >From my point of view the main issue I want to solve isn't

Re: Quarter tones and MIDI

2024-10-30 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Matthew, Am 29.10.24 um 20:33 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: I'd like to engrave music with quarter-tones in Lilypond, and generate MIDI that will sound correct when played. Lilypond is supposed to support that but I've run into some issues with actually doing it. First: quarter tones a

Quarter tones and MIDI

2024-10-29 Thread mskala
I'd like to engrave music with quarter-tones in Lilypond, and generate MIDI that will sound correct when played. Lilypond is supposed to support that but I've run into some issues with actually doing it. First: quarter tones are implemented by emitting the nearest 12-ET note and a quarter-tone p