Re: Rest skipped in MIDI when music starts with it

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Eluze wrote:

> Martin Tarenskeen wrote
> > Hi,
> >
> > When, using Lilypond 2.19.0, if my score starts with a rest, the resulting
> > MIDI file does NOT start with a rest.
> >
> > %minimal example
> > \score {
> >    \version "2.19.0"
> >    \relative c' {
> >      R1 | c d e f | R1 | f e d c |
> >    }
> >    \midi {}
> > }
> > %end of example
> >
> > Result: The MIDI file starts without a rest in the first bar.
> > The rest in the 3rd bar behaves normally.
> >
> > Is this a bug, or intentional?
>
> I can't reproduce that - could it be your midi player is wrong?

You're right. It's my midiplayer, timidity, that doesn't "count" the first 
rest.

When I use rosegarden or midi2ly I can see the rest is simply there.
Nothing wrong with lilypond.

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MT