Re: Suppressing chords in MIDI output

[Christopher Meredith]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Peter Chubb
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "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 {}
> }

This is an interesting suggestion, as is the other one. If you'll
forgive my ignorance, what do you mean by "unroll repeats"?