Re: Swing Midi

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

David Greene wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I searched the archives and found a few discussions about
> generating swing-feel MIDI from straight eighths Lily
> source but the most recent was from 2004.
>
> I was thinking about writing a Scheme function to carve
> up all of the durations into units of eighths, inserting
> the proper ties to maintain longer notes.  Then I could
> imagine altering the durations as appropriate to implement
> the swing feel.

if you're only interested in adding swing to the MIDI (not the 
notation), it will be a lot easier to multiply durations suitably, ie. do

  c8  c8 -> c8*2/3 c8*1/3

Doing note splitting with correct ties would be a royal pain in the behind.


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