: How do I make the staff for dynamics affect the MIDI output? I've written a lovely[citation needed] piece of piano music using Denemo (a graphical front-end to Lilypond), consisting of a piano staff with a staff for dynamics

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I make separate score-blocks for the PDF and the MIDI. Something like the following. Note that, for the PDF, the dynamics in pianoCentredDynamics are separate from the Staffs containing the notes in rhMusic and lhMusic. By contrast, for the MIDI for the RH, the dynamics and rhMusic are put in parallel and all assigned to the Staff -- and similarly for the LH.

version "2.18.2"
include "english.ly"

header {
} % header

paper
{
#(set-paper-size "a4")
}

global =
{
key bf major
tempo 4=96
time 3/4
}

rhMusic =
{
d'2. ef'4 f'g'a'bf'c''d''2.
}

pianoCentredDynamics =
{
s2.pp s< s sff
}

lhMusic =
{
clef bass
bf,2. c4 d ef f g a bf2.
}

pedalling =
{
}

% Score-block for the layout
score
{
new GrandStaff
<<
new Staff = "rh" << global rhMusic >>
new Dynamics = "dynamics" pianoCentredDynamics
new Staff = "lh" << global lhMusic >>
new Dynamics = "pedal" pedalling
>>
layout
{
}
}

% Score-block for the MIDI
score
{
unfoldRepeats %articulate
new PianoStaff
<<
% See lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Sustain-in-midi-output-of-Piano-Centered-Dynamics-Template-td31012.html new Dynamics = "dynamics" pianoCentredDynamics
new Dynamics = "pedal" pedalling
new Staff = "rh" << global rhMusic pianoCentredDynamics pedalling >>
new Staff = "lh" << global lhMusic pianoCentredDynamics pedalling >>
>>

midi
{
% See lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Sustain-in-midi-output-of-Piano-Centered-Dynamics-Template-td31012.html context {
type "Performer_group"
name Dynamics
consists "Piano_pedal_performer"
}
context {
PianoStaff
accepts Dynamics
}

context
{
Staff
consists "Dynamic_performer"
}
}
} % score for MIDI