Re: Getting one midi file with file with many scores

[Keith OHara]

Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna <at> onu.edu> writes:

> hi:  I had a file with two scores, each score having \layout() and \midi. In 
agreement with themanual, there was only one output from \layout, but there 
were 
two midi files, file.midi and file-1.midi. How does one get one midi file with 
a 
.ly file having many scores. In other words, I want lilypond output to be one 
midi file with file-1.midi appended to file.midi. I thought I had read 
somewhere 
how to append output
> files, but searching notation.pdf did not turn up anything.Thanks.Sebastian
> 

LilyPond does not have any capability to join two MIDI files.
The MIDI format uses a header, so it is a bit more complicated 
than concatenating the files.

If your music is all in variables, you could write a special longer score,
 \score {
  {
    % first piece goes here
    % second piece goes here
  }
  \midi {}
 }
to produce one long midi file.

Or, maybe you could more easily combine the separate output files using 
MIDI editing software.