Re: MIDI and Lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

The lyrics lines are included in the LilyPond MIDI output,
but I guess it depends on the MIDI player you use.
For example, I tried to run mf2t
(http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/mf2t/) on the output
from the melody-lyrics.ly template and it gives:

MFile 1 3 384
MTrk
0 Meta Text "Creator: GNU LilyPond 2.2.0            "
0 Meta Text "Generated automatically by: GNU LilyPond 2.2.0            "
0 Meta Text "at Tue Apr 27 10:40:42 2004                                 "
0 Meta Text "at Tue Apr 27 10:40:42 2004                                 "
0 Meta SeqName "Track 0"
0 Meta TrkEnd
TrkEnd
MTrk
0 On ch=1 n=69 v=127
0 TimeSig 4/4 18 8
0 Meta TrkName ""
0 Tempo 1000000
384 Off ch=1 n=69 v=64
384 On ch=1 n=71 v=127
768 Off ch=1 n=71 v=64
768 On ch=1 n=72 v=127
1152 Off ch=1 n=72 v=64
1152 On ch=1 n=74 v=127
1536 Off ch=1 n=74 v=64
1536 Meta TrkEnd
TrkEnd
MTrk
0 Meta Lyric "Aaa"
0 TimeSig 4/4 18 8
0 Meta TrkName "uniqueContext0"
0 Tempo 1000000
384 Meta Lyric "Bee"
768 Meta Lyric "Cee"
1152 Meta Lyric "Dee"
1152 Meta TrkEnd
TrkEnd


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   /Mats

Quoting Michiel Lange <address@hidden>:

> Hello all,
>
> If I'm correct (which is always the question) one can add lyrics to a
> midi file so they can be showed during playback. Kind of like karaoke
> style... (if the player supports it of course)
>
> when I write a song with lilypond including lyrics, and generate a
> midifile ou tof it, however, those lyrics do not appear... is that a
> special setting you need to add, or does lilypond not support this (yet)?
>
> I'm running lilypond 2.2.0 and the song very globally looks like this:
>
> << \notes \new staff { a b c d }
>     \lyricsto \new Lyrics=A \lyrics {a b c d}
>  >>
> \paper {}
> \midi {}
>
> Maybe this shortens my search for how to get this done...
>
> TIA
>
> Michiel
>
>
>
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