Re: Why aren't repeats unfolded automatically in MIDI?

[Mats Bengtsson]

One reason is that the MIDI output, at least initially, only was intended
for proof listening a score, not to produce any musically pleasing output.
In such a situation, you clearly don't want to listen to the repeats.

Regarding realizations of pralls, trills and so on, I hope you realize that
there is no single "correct" realization of each such ornament. So,
I would judge it extremely hard to implement something that produces
a MIDI output that is pleasing to listen to, especially considering all
the treatises from the baroque era that describes how all playing and
ornamentation should be done according to the "good taste".

  /Mats

Raphael Manfredi wrote:

> What is the technical reason for repeats to not be automatically "played"
> (i.e. unfolded) as many times as necessary in the MIDI output?
>
> The "\unfoldRepeats" is a crude hack, and I fail to see the justification
> behind this feature.  Surely, lilypond knows how to iterate over repeats
> to be able to process "\unfoldRepeats" so surely it should not have any
> problem generating correct MIDI output without this directive.
>
> Why isn't this behaviour "fixed" to behave normally, i.e have MIDI output
> reflect the music as written?
>
> Raphael
>
> P.S: Why aren't pralls, trills, arpeggios not automatically realized
> during MIDI output?  When playing baroque music, the lack of realization
> of those ornaments really changes the way it sounds.  And typesetting
> the realization in the score is cumbersome and messes the visual quality
> of the score.
>
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