Re: MIDI (how to) mute only one -chordname- staff

[Jeff Elliott]

Mats,

I must admit that I don't really understand what your lines are doing, but they don't appear to be helping me to mute the chords in the ChordNames staff.

I thought maybe you had made a little typo: is the

  \accepts ChordNameVoice

Supposed to be:

  \accepts ChordNamesVoice

?

If I change it, it doesn't seem to make a difference.  It appears to me, that dynamics must be applied to the ChordNames staff (or the first chord in that "staff") for the midiMinimumVolume to have an affect.  Is there some way to add a dynamic to a chord?  Or this there some other way to mute the MIDI from the ChordNames?

Thanks again for everyones help,

Jeff.

On 15-Oct-07, at 9:52 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

Ed Ardzinski wrote:

>Yes your method does work well for a normal "Staff", but I can't seem to get it to work with >a "ChordNames" staff.  I can't seem to apply Dynamics to a chord name(?)

 

Again, this is preference, but I really don't like the midi outputs that come from a chordnames staff - you have no control of the voicing, and at least in the version of LP I'm using (2.6.5) chord mode does not respect ties, so I can't get the proper rhythm from a chordnames staff if there is anything beyond a basic rhythm.

That's easy to fix. Just add the following lines at the top of your file:

\midi{

 \context{

   \Voice

   \name ChordNamesVoice

 }

 \context{

   \Staff

   \name ChordNames

   \accepts ChordNameVoice

 }

}

I don't really understand why this isn't the default. Probably, as has already been

pointed out, that you cannot control how the chords are realized, but then we

maybe shouldn't generate any MIDI output at all.

  /Mats

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