Re: Staff Names: some comments

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:29 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
>  Hi Richard: It looks as if the individual instruments should be easy
> to add (sort of, as my midi is not VERY tone-accurate).
yes, I would expect so - but I don't at all recall what is involved.
When I looked I saw that each instrument was a .denemo file so I'm
guessing that what you write below is gleaned by looking at examples???
>  
>  The staff-range lo & hi are presumably what is used to register
> notes "out of range of instrument" 
>  I assume "0" is Middle C since a flute starts there. Guitar would
> start 12 notes below Middle C which is  G and rise to the first D on
> the top string (which wouldn't give many rock guitarists much scope).
> The piccolo must start on D transposed up an octave; the Alto Sax
> start on -1 + (transpose) -9 or 10 notes below middle C which would
> be an E (flat) as expected.
>  And the midi programme number is tabulated somewhere.
I think if you go to the Staff->Built in properties and select the MIDI
tab and choose the instrument you get to see the program number
belonging to it (in the GM soundfont, which is what is being used).

>  
>  But are the rest of the items significant; has figures and has fake
> chords mean nothing to me.
you wouldn't be touching those - what interface has brought them to
your attention? (They are things that get set if you make a staff a
chord staff or put figured bass on the staff).

>  Midi channel presumably is decided by denemo, since when I change it
> I get a complaint!
Yes, the channel is not part of the instrument (well, there's some
complication about drums ...)

>  Is this a case of its being set by an (If (number=true) then use
> number, else use default) process?
???

>  
>  There are only 4-5 "Brass instruments" given a midi channel;

do you mean in the GM soundfont spec?
>  I
> assume that, for example, a cornet would use a "trumpet" midi with a
> different range.
>  
>  I am happy to do the basic ones if you wish. And I'd correct the
> guitars to have the right names (the acoustic guitar comes in a Steel
> Guitar) and a larger range. 

that would be good. The "range" is only a display thing - you get
warned by red notes in the display when you enter a note outside the
"range". What actual range is present in the GM soundfont I don't
know...
I don't recognize where the listings you give below come from... (not
important).

Richard


>  Best wishes
>  Joe
>  
> On 02/12/2022 15:58, Richard Shann wrote:
>   
> > And is there any reason why it is not possible to assign Brass Band
> > instruments?
> No one has contributed the individual instruments - I just tested and
> you can add an entire brass band section by going up from the folder
> "instruments" and into the folder "band" but this leaves you to copy
> and paste the music into the instrument you want and delete all the
> others 🙁
>             
>   
>   Flute
>   Piccolo
>   AltoSax
>   Guitar
>   piano
>             number-of-lines
>   ???
>   5
>   5
>   5
>   5
>   5
>             staff-range-lo
>   Bottom note – Flute Middle C
>   0
>   1
>   -1
>   -12
>   -10
>             staff-range-hi
>   Top Note. Flute : A
>   22
>   21
>   18
>   9
>   28
>             staff-range
>   Just one staff?
>   1
>   1
>   1
>   1
>   1
>             voice-control
>   ???
>   1
>   1
>   1
>   1
>   1
>             transpose
>   Picollo 8ve > Flute,
>  Sax transposed to low Eb
>   0
>   12
>   -9
>   0
>   0
>             instrument
>   Name
>   Flute
>   Piccolo
>   Alto Sax
>   Steel Guitar
>   Acoustic Piano 
>             device-port
>   ??
>   NONE
>   NONE
>   NONE
>   NONE
>   NONE
>             volume
>   
>   127
>   127
>   127
>   127
>   127
>             override_volume
>   ??
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>             mute
>   
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>             midi_prognum
>   
>   73
>   72
>   65
>   25
>   0
>             midi_channel
>   
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   1
>             hasfigures
>   ??
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>             hasfakechords
>   ??
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>   0
>