Re: More ponderings on Chordmode

[Colin Campbell]

On 16-02-05 01:31 PM, Peter Gentry wrote:
> I cannot discover a means to have the chords sound as a guitar in this example 
> everything I try ends up as a piano.
>
> Is it possible to assign a midiInstrument to the chordNotes?
<snippage occurreth)


>    \relative c''
>    \new Staff {
>      \set Staff.midiInstrument = "acoustic guitar (nylon)"
>     \transpose c b {


As a bit of a SWAG, does your soundfont actually have a definition for 
"acoustic guitar (nylon) "? If not, it will default to some sort of 
piano sound. Also, having been bitted by this myself, is the soundfont 
loaded in your MIDI device actually the one you think it is?

Just my CAD .02, Peter!

Cheers,
Colin

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