Re: Dynamics for both staves

[Knute Snortum]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 8:41 AM Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 12:21 AM Paulo Matos <pmatos@igalia.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to apply dynamic marking like piano and so forth to both
> > staves.
> [...]
> > i.e. start a new group called Dynamics and add the dynamics there but
> > this seems suboptimal as it makes the typesetting separate from the
> > notes _and_ as far as I understand it, doesn't affect MIDI - and the
> > first solution does.
> > Is there a better solution to this?
>
> What I do is have a separate dynamics variable, then include that
> variable in both staves of the piano staff in the midi block.  Then I
> switch the dynamic performer to the staff level.  It looks like this
> (for only one staff):
[...]

And here's a more complete example that also shows how you can have
dynamics in the staff as well as the dynamics "staff":

\version "2.25.1"

upper = { c''4 4 4 4 }
lower = { \clef bass c4 4 4\mp 4 }

dyn = { s4\f s\mf s s\p }

\score {
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff \upper
    \new Dynamics \dyn
    \new Staff \lower
  >>
  \layout {}
}

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff << \upper \dyn >>
    \new Staff << \lower \dyn >>
  >>
  \midi {
      \context {
      \Staff
      \consists "Dynamic_performer"
    }
    \context {
      \Voice
      \remove "Dynamic_performer"
    }
  }
}


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Knute Snortum