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From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca To: Lorenzo Sutton lorenzofsutton@gmail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux
Le 2012-03-05 à 19:58:00, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit :
It can be dangerous/misleading to extract the general rule from one single,
very specific example like this, and then re-apply it to a totally different domain/example.
Yes, but then, the reasoning that you stated is not what you actually meant. You're not trying to say that it doesn't make sense to use something that is primarily a typesetting system, to do midi output. It may be because Lilypond in particular is bad at this task in particular, but you already are generalising by calling it « a midi creator » and « a typesetting system » and that a fact about the latter in general justifies a statement about the former in general.
I gave you a link to show what Lilypond _actually_ does.
The \articulation command just changes the input for all articulations that can be simulated by altering the actual note values. So for staccato, a note value is changed to a smaller note value plus a rest, legato is changed to two voices that slightly overlap*, and so on. Of course this is clunky, because if you want to look at the score and listen to the MIDI output you need to render twice-- once using the \articulation command for the MIDI output, and another without it to get the score looking as it normally would (though I may be missing some command that will automate this).
Without the \articulation command, you can get basic MIDI output for things like dynamic changes and markings, and tempo changes: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/creating-midi-files
- A former piano teacher of mine termed this technique "California legato"-- that is,
playing one note, then playing the next while lazily releasing the first note. This was a derogatory term, meant to chide the performer for going after easy note-to-note connections at the expense of melodic clarity. (Similar to keeping the pedal fully down through changes in harmony.)
-Jonathan
I'm not saying that I really expressed myself well in yesterday's reply... It was a bad way to put it.
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