Re: Problem (or not?) with creating a MIDI File

[Mats Bengtsson]

When I process your .ly file here, I get a wasser.midi that is
799 bytes long and plays perfectly well. I used the latest version
from CVS which includes a few changes compared to 2.7.3, but I
couldn't find anything in the ChangeLog that directly looks related
to MIDI output. However, I know there have been some reports in
bug-lilypond on MIDI problems with 2.7.xx, so it might be something
that has been fixed very recently.
In general, I recommend to stick to the stable versions (2.6.x) if
you want to do any serious typesetting and only use the unstable (2.7.x)
if you are really interested in the latest additions. Also, please keep
issues specific to the development versions in the lilypond-devel
mailing list.

  /Mats

Martin Brodbeck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to create a midi file from wasser.ly. But the resulting midi file 
> is too (?) small (319 bytes). I'm not sure if there is something wrong 
> with lilypond, or if I don't know how to create a MIDI file correctly 
> with lilypond or if the midi file is all right and I just can't play it.
>
> I use lilypond 2.7.3
>
> Thanks a lot
> Martin
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> \version "2.7.3"
>
> melodie = {
>                 \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #all-invisible
>                 \time 4/4
>                 \clef violin
>                 \key d \major
>                 \partial 4
> 		\repeat volta 1 { 
> 		a4 |
>                 fis'4. e'8 fis'4 g'4 |
>                 a'2. fis'4 |
>                 d'4. cis'8 d'4 g'4 | %\break
>                 \slurDotted
>                 fis'8([ e'8])  e'2 } \break
>                 \partial 4
>                 d'4 |
>                 b'4. a'8 b'4 cis''4 |
>                 d''2 a'2 |
>                 r4 b'4 a'4 g'4 |
>                 a'4. a'8 d'4. d'8 |
>                 g'4 fis'4 d'4. d'8 |
>                 g'4 fis'4 d'4. d'8 |
> 		g'4 fis'4 e'4. d'8 | 
> 		d'2.  \bar "|."
> }
>
> texteins = \lyricmode {
>                 \override LyricText #'font-family = #'sans
>                 \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.5
>
>                 \set stanza = "1. "
> 		Ins 
> 		Was -- ser fÀllt ein
>                 "Stein," ganz
>                 heim -- "lich," still und
> 		lei -- "se;"  
> 		Wo
>                 Got -- tes gro -- �e
> 		Lie -- be 
> 		in ei -- nem 
> 		Men -- schen "fÀllt," da
>                 wirkt sie fort in
>                 Tat und Wort hin --
> 		aus in uns -- re "Welt." 
> }
>
> textzwei = \lyricmode {
>                 \override LyricText #'font-family = #'sans
>                 \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.5
>                 und
> 		ist er noch so 
> 		"klein," er 
> 		zieht doch wei -- te
>                 Krei -- "se."
> }
>
> \score {
>         <<
>                 \context Voice = "melodie" {
>                         \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic grand"
>                         \melodie
>                 }
>                 \lyricsto "melodie" \new Lyrics \texteins
>                 \lyricsto "melodie" \new Lyrics \textzwei
>         >>
>         \layout {}
>         \midi {}
> }
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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