Re: Guitar chord mode no longer produces MIDI file with chords

[Nathan Ho]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:08 PM, David Bellows <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the versions of Lilypond I've used up through 2.19.16 when I would
> compile the attached file the resulting MIDI file would play the
> entire chord. With 2.19.17 now only the root note is played. I don't
> really know where to look for this kind of information but I can't
> tell if this is the new expected result or a bug. In any case I'd like
> to get the full chords back if possible.
>
> Thanks.

I was able to reproduce the issue, and it seems that ChordNames no
longer produces MIDI output and what you were hearing is the Voice
context you created. The workaround is to create two scores, one with
a \layout block and another with the \midi block:

theChords = \chordmode {
  f8:m c4:m f4:m c8:m f4:m c4:m g4 f4:m g4 c4:m f8:m f4:m \bar "|."
}

\score {
  <<
    \new ChordNames \theChords
    \new FretBoards \theChords
    \new Voice { ... }
  >>
  \layout { ... }
}

\score {
  \new Staff \theChords
  \midi { }
}

Regards,
Nathan