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Re: MIDI and Lyrics
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David Raleigh Arnold |
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Re: MIDI and Lyrics |
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Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:21:59 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 05 October 2004 06:24 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 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
>
>
> If you want more information, search the mailing list archives.
>
> /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...
Timidity does screen the lyrics when run in a terminal, but
there are no spaces between the words in a LilyPond-generated
midi file.
If you are using a different player, try changing the extension
from .mid or .midi to ".KAR" or ".kar". It probably won't work, but
it's worth a try. daveA
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