Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

[Hans Aikema]

On 14-3-2012 18:01, Michael Ellis wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikema<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis
> > > <address@hidden>    wrote:
> > > > Is this a known problem?  I don't see any prior reports online and
> > > > I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was because I
> > > > was doing some fairly complicated things.  I took time to reduce it to
> > > > a minimal example today. It's still present in 2.15.33 as shown by the
> > > > example below.  FWIW, I'm running OS X 10.6.7 and playing the midi
> > > > with QuickTime.  I'm attaching the midi file.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a workaround?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mike
> > > Wow. It's rare not to get a response from this list.  Did I phrase the
> > > question incredibly poorly?
> > >
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> > Michael,
> >
> > Don't worry, IMHO your phrasing was perfectly clear. Sometimes it just takes
> > more than a day for someone to notice a post, vaguely remembering reading
> > something about it a while ago and than googling up the answer ;)
> >
> > But here it is: Yes it's an issue with lilypond, it is already known and
> > there is a documented work-around in the issue.
> >
> > See http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1661 for the details.
> >
> > regards,
> > Hans
>
> Thanks, Hans.  I did find that report while searching but I wasn't
> sure whether it was the same problem as the report dealt with mapping
> dynamic changes to parallel skip sequences.  My report deals with
> instrument changes in single voice melodies.
You're correct Michael,

I misread the report... but I think it's likely that the instrument 
change is 'a note too late' due to the same issue. I'll do some 
experimenting on it and will get back to you.

regards,
Hans