Re: grace notes MIDI playback

[David Kastrup]

Gilberto Agostinho <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmm, but here is a huge limitation of the articulate.ly script: the duration
> of the appoggiaturas played on the beat depend only on the number of notes,
> not on their duration! See:
>
> \version "2.19.28"
> \include "articulate.ly"
>
> music = {
>   \appoggiatura {c'8} d'2
>   \appoggiatura {c'16} d'2
>   \appoggiatura {c'32} d'2
>   r2
>   \appoggiatura {c'8 e'} d'2
>   \appoggiatura {c'16 e'} d'2
>   \appoggiatura {c'32 e'} d'2
>   r2
> }
>
> \score {
>   \music
>   \layout{}
> }
> \score {
>   \articulate \music
>   \midi{}
> }
>          
> It produces:  appo.midi
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n184218/appo.midi>  . As you can
> hear, each group sound the same when they shouldn't.

So how should this be rigged instead?  Nominal length, unless that would
swallow all of the following notelength or more?  And otherwise scale
down repeatedly by a factor of 2 until it doesn't?

-- 
David Kastrup