Hi!
I think that depends very much upon what you want to do with the MIDI file. If it's only for listening purposes to check for wrong notes, then you can send more instruments (like alle the strings for example) to the same channel. Disadvantage: they all sound the same and if the same note occurs two times at the same time the first note that ends cancels both, because they are one end the same note in one channel.
If you need every single instrument on a separate channel for further work outside lilypond you could just make two separate books/scores with different halfs of the instruments and merge them back where you want to continue working with them. (Kind of like stem export in a DAW.)
All the best
Christian
Hi everyone,
I'm creating my first Lilypond score, an arrangement of A Te O Cara.
I am using Frescobaldi and used the Score Wiazrd to get started.
I have now come across a MIDI limitation, a maximum of 16
instruments as I understand it.
I'm assuming I'm not the first to come across this limitation; what
is the easiest way to accommodate more than 16 instruments within
the constraints of a score structured this way? ...
\version
"2.20.0"
\language "english"
\header {
% ...
}
\paper {
#(set-paper-size "a3")
}
\layout {
% ...
}
global = {
\key d \major
% ...
}
flute = {
\global
% -- measures _0 to _7
R1. |
r4. r4. r4. a''4( a''16) a''16 |
% ...
}
% ... more voices
flutePart = \new Staff \with {
instrumentName = "Flute"
shortInstrumentName = "Fl."
midiInstrument = "flute"
} \flute
% ... more
staves
\score {
<<
\flutePart
% ...
more parts
>>
\layout {
\set Score.currentBarNumber = #0
}
\midi { }
}
If this structure is not conducive to implementing dynamic
switching of MIDI instruments or whatever is required, I would
consider changing it, but now rather than when I've completed the
score!
Thank you for reading.