Re: produce midi drums but hide staff

[vector457]

yeah I want to keep the drums in the midi output but not display it in 
the pdf

On 12/06/2012 04:32 PM, Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, vector <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > Im getting the hang of this even tho it might not look it ;) thanks for all
> > your inputs.
> >
> > I wanted to add a simple drumbeat to the previous script and produce a basic
> > chord and drums midi.
> > so far I have this working.
> > But I want to remove the drums completely from the pdf output. ie just show
> > chord progression only.
> Do you want to do this temporarily for debugging purposes? If so, you
> can use block comments.
>
> %{
> \new DrumStaff <<
>         \stopStaff
>         \hideNotes
>         \new DrumVoice {\voiceOne \up}
>         \new DrumVoice { \voiceTwo \down }
>      >>
> %}
>
> > but
> > \new DrumStaff <<
> >        \stopStaff
> >        \hideNotes
> >        \new DrumVoice {\voiceOne \up}
> >        \new DrumVoice { \voiceTwo \down }
> >     >>
> > did just that, it hid the staff but the notes are left floating. hideNotes
> > had no effect :(
> > maybe its in the wrong place?
> Angle brackets << >> indicate simultaneous music, while curly brackets
> { } indicate sequential music. To make the DrumVoices come after the
> \stopStaff and \hideNotes, use curly brackets:
>
> \new DrumStaff {
>    \stopStaff
>    \hideNotes
>    <<
>      \new DrumVoice {\voiceOne \up}
>      \new DrumVoice { \voiceTwo \down }
>    >>
> }
>
> Regards,
> Nathan