Re: Overlapping notes and midi output

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Hinrik ÖrnSigurðsson <address@hidden> writes:

> When I have overlapping notes in a song, they will both be heard in
> the midi output if they are on separate staffs (see the first measure
> in my code example). But if they occur on the same staff, the latter
> one is not heard (see the second measure).
>
> I'm using timidity+pmidi on Linux. Is this a bug in lilypond's midi
> output or is there something wrong with the midi player I'm using?
> Timidity's --overlap-voice option has no effect on this issue.

It is a feature in Lilypond's midi output.  Discussion about this can be
found at
<URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-04/msg00233.html>.

I have a patch which changes this behavior, but I was supposed to allow
it to be an optional feature before resubmitting the patch.  I couldn't
figure a way to do that at the time, and eventually forgot about it as
life got more hectic.  I still have this code, and have kept it
up-to-date with respect to the current development trunk, but it is
still a non-optional feature in this patch; it changes the default
behavior.

If someone wants to help me figure out the right way to make this
feature optional, I'd be willing to work on this again.  Patch included
herein:

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Michael Welsh Duggan
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