Re: [Denemo-devel] Instrument templates (was Re: Playback View: an important advance for Denemo)

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 22:55 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:


> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Richard Shann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 10:03 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
>         > How do I create an instrument template like this for other
>         > instruments?
>         
>         Was my previous reply to this clear enough? A template is just
>         a denemo
>         file with no music in it.
>         
>         Using Staffs->Add Staff->Add Staff for Instrument is now
>         setting a fresh
>         MIDI channel for the instrument when it is added. A piano
>         (being two
>         staffs) will get a single channel assigned.
> 
> 
> I did this. I opened up that template like you said. On playback view
> it had the clarinet sound. I tried to modify the template for
> classical guitar.

I'm guessing you didn't get a list of instrument names, and changed just
the MIDI program value? Did you leave the MIDI Channel at 1 ?

>  I could hear classical guitar when I selected playback in the
> playback menu.

Is that the d-Play command?


>  In playback view it was using clarinet voice still.

Was that playing from the start (which is d-Performance IIRC) or
clicking on a note? Did it make you wait while it re-typeset for
Playback View? If not, that would be a bug.

>  I changed the midi instrument name

without a list to choose from, can you do that?

>  and I made sure to name the instruments something with one of these
> names:
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/midi-instruments
> 

Richard