Re: two bugs (?)

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:12:50 Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > > I haven't looked at the details of the MIDI format for 
> > > several years but from a quick look at the descriptions
> > > at www.wotsit.org, it seems that you can only have 16
> > > different channels in a MIDI file and each channel
> > > corresponds to one instrument (and one Lilypond Staff
> > > context). At the moment you have 18 different instruments.
> > 
> > Not true, lily uses a track per staff,IIRC.
> 
> Yes, but as you can see in the source code of
> Performance::output(...) and
> Staff_performer::stop_translation_timestep ()
> you also get a new channel for every staff.
> 
>    /Mats

Aren't most midi scores, including orchestra and band
scores, on a single channel out of a possible 16?

If it is possible to insert comments into a midi file,
could lyrics be inserted as comments?  That's
probably all there is to making a .kar file, since
timidity plays them and dumps the lyrics to the console
quite well.
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