Re: [NTG-context] midi

On 3 Feb 2021, at 22:06, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Am 03.02.2021 um 19:39 schrieb Hans Hagen :

On 2/3/2021 7:09 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Am 03.02.2021 um 18:09 schrieb Hans Hagen :

Hi,

So, in context, we can do text, and we can do graphics, and also fonts, now do we also need an interface to midi? Are you thinking about Knuth’s ĩ🛎TeX?

That is way too ambitious, maybe more like 🎹TeX (but in order to suite tex/mp extreme precision we would have to support microtones which is not in midi so that immediate abandons the project).

LilyPond supports microtones in MIDI via pitch bending; it’s not supported by all MIDI players.

There is also a frequency data format [1], which is not yet in LilyPond, though Graham Breed has written code for it. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_tuning_standard