Re: MIDI with ancient notation

[Aleksandr Andreev]

Upon further investigation, I believe this is related to this issue:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2004

Aleksandr

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Aleksandr Andreev
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I've been experimenting with what is supported so far for Kievan
> notation, and I've run in to some problems generating MIDI output. I
> get the following messages at compile time if I add a \midi block:
>
> warning: cannot find or create new `KievanStaff'
> warning: cannot find or create new `KievanVoice'
> warning: cannot find or create `Timing' called `'
>
> Looking at performer-init.ly, I see that VaticanaStaff and
> VaticanaVoice have their own Context blocks so that makes me think
> that KievanStaff and KievanVoice should be implemented similarly.
>
> However, if I typeset some Gregorian chant, as in:
>
> \include "gregorian.ly"
> \score {
>  \new VaticanaStaff
>  <<
>    \new VaticanaVoice {
>      \[ c'\melisma a \]
>    }
>  >>
> \midi {  }
> \layout { }
> }
>
> I get no MIDI output -- the resulting MIDI file appears to consist of
> a few seconds of rests.
>
> There's probably something I'm not doing right.
>
> Also, I couldn't find anything about MIDI output with ancient music in
> the documentation.
>
> Help much appreciated as always!
>
> Aleksandr