Re: Support articulations, slurs and breaths in MIDI (issue 26470047)

[dak]

Just that Devon does not get a wrong impression: I applaud every effort
to make LilyPond's MIDI output better reflect its input, and this work
is a great step in that direction.

Dan, however, suggests to make LilyPond's output to reflect not the
music but an imaginary performance by a human player, making the MIDI
worse suitable for proofhearing.

And that's a direction that makes no sense, because there is other
specialized software for that job.  LilyPond's MIDI output is intended
to convey information, not emotion.

It would be an ambitious task to "properly" convey "con fuoco" or "molto
triste" like a human player would, but the MIDI way would be to crank up
or down the speed and the expression controller.

https://codereview.appspot.com/26470047/