Re: midi articulation

[Malte Meyn]

Am 23.03.2016 um 18:21 schrieb Daniel Birns:
> Okay, I see what articulate.ly does. However… has anyone tried to do this 
> within the midi generator.

I think so: see the second-to-last bullet point at 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/

> But, honestly, the midi files suck. As a Sibelius user, this is a showstopper — 
> Sibelius does a beautiful job at this, and it seems like it shouldn’t be 
> difficult for lilypond to do the same.

Are you sure this is only the midi files? I think the quality of the 
sound fonts is at least equally important.

> And why haven’t the others who know a great deal more about this than I do, 
> done this?

Probably more people focus on LilyPond’s goal to get the best possible 
music engraving/typesetting.