Re: lilypond and rosegarden : control track (?) in midi output? (linux user)

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno lun 9 gen 2017 alle 16:24, Dario Marrini 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> I'm trying to create a orchester midi file using lilypond as source 
> notation and rosegarden; I have some trouble using rosegarden jack 
> and so on (I'm using linux), but I came to a working two strings 
> tracks with two fluidsynth instances, so I can manage Violin I on the 
> left and Violin II on the right.
>
> I can't figure out the presence of a 'control track' when I import 
> the midi files (outputted by lilypond) in rosegarden, as there is a 
> staff only in lilypond, so do I have a single midi channel, right? I 
> dont' know if it is a lilypond or rosegarden way of working.
> Please help

What you see is the sequence name. In 2.18.2 "control track" was the 
default:

$ timidity test.midi
Playing test.midi
MIDI file: test.midi
Format: 1 Tracks: 2 Divisions: 384
Sequence: control track
Text: creator:
Text: GNU LilyPond 2.18.2

If you use the last development version (2.19), you'll see the text 
assigned to the title in your \header (you won't see anything if it's 
not set).

As you can read in the Changes:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index.html

"When outputting MIDI, LilyPond will now store the title defined in a 
score’s \header block (or, if there is no such definition on the 
\score level, the first such definition found in a \header block of the 
score’s enclosing \bookpart, \book, or top-level scope) as the name 
of the MIDI sequence in the MIDI file. Optionally, the name of the MIDI 
sequence can be overridden using the new midititle \header field 
independently of title (for example, in case title contains markup code 
which does not render as plain text in a satisfactory way 
automatically)."

Don't know how to work around this in version 2.18.2.
This was the discussion which lead to the patch:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-08/msg00062.html