Re: percussion and midi

[Marc Hohl]

Hello Alan,

Alan Szlosek schrieb:
> Greetings, current Lilypond developers. I'm new here and would like 
> some guidance.
>
> I'm interested in using Lilypond to compose music for high school 
> drumlines. Hopefully my contributions will be useful to others. I'm 
> not new to programming (Computer Science major), but am new to the C++ 
> & Scheme setup in use here. My first task is to make accent marks 
> translate into a dynamic step up in the MIDI output.
>
> I would assume that I need to do some work at the iteration stage, as 
> well as the MIDI translation stage. Does an "\accent" get turned into 
> an articulation somehow by ly/script-init.ly <http://script-init.ly>? 
> I'm probably wrong ...
>
> I imagine I'll also have to do a check for whether we're dealing with 
> drummode, and conditionally modify some node with extra dynamic 
> information.
>
> Can anyone point me in a more clear direction? Thanks.
I don't know much about MIDI in lilypond, but there has been some 
discussion about articulation
and MIDI on the lilypond-user mailing list, perhaps the following link 
might help you?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-06/msg00029.html

Marc
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