Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output

[Marc Hohl]

Peter Chubb schrieb:
> > > > > > "Christopher" == Christopher Meredith <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > >             
>
> Christopher> I use chordmode to print the chords above the piano
> Christopher> music, but when rendering the MIDI file, I would prefer
> Christopher> the chords to not be played.  Is there a way to have only
> Christopher> the voices (and not the chords) output to MIDI?
>
> It's generally best to have a separate score block for MIDI output, so
> you can unroll repeats and so on --- just leave the chords out of
> that score.
>
> accomp=\chords {c4 f g2:7}
> tune=\relative c'' { c4 c b a}
> \score {
>        <<
>        \context Chords \accomp
>        \context Staff {\key c \major \time 4/4 \tune}
>        >>
>        \layout{}
> }
> \score  {
>        \unfoldRepeats <<
>            \context Staff {\key c \major \time 4/4 \tune}
>        >>
>        \midi {}
> }
>   
From another post to this subject (about a year ago) I found

accomp=\chords {c4 f g2:7}
tune=\relative c'' { c4 c b a}
\score {
      <<
      \context Chords \accomp
      \context Staff {\key c \major \time 4/4 \tune}
      >>
      \layout{}
      \midi {
        \context { \ChordNameVoice \remove Note_performer }
      }
}

which has the advantage of not needing another \score-block,
but I haven't tested this.

HTH

Marc