alphatex show drum (notation or tabs)

[sugizo]

Description

with guitar pro file, alphatab can show drum notation, it'll nice to have if alphatex can show drum notation too

Possible Solutions

.
\track "Drums"
\instrument 119 \clef Neutral
:4 f4{dy f} c5 f4 c5

result
not showing the cymbal notation x| above the notation

trying to add \tuning drum on alphatex above

result
the notation not shown

**tested for both score and tab stave profile on **
http://sugizo.pythonanywhere.com/music/notation/form_tablature_in_notation

n.b.
\instrument 119 stand for Synth Drum
ref
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI#Percussive

Question

is alphatex support drum notation ?
e.g.
https://www.alphatab.net/docs/showcase/special-tracks/#drum-tabs

or even better drum tabs ?
e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_tablature

  HH|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-||
   S|----o-------o---||
   B|o-------o-------||
     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

thanks

[Danielku15]

is alphatex support drum notation ?

As of today alphaTex does not support any kind of drum notation. It should be fairly easy to add it since the latest changes I made for supporting percussion notation. I would need to think of a proper way to address the indivdiual instruments as the midi number is not really nice:

alphaTab/src/model/PercussionMapper.ts

Line 76 in b31f6a4

private static instrumentArticulations: Map<number, InstrumentArticulation> = new Map([

I will add a work item for that to the backlog but I think it will have rather low priority.

or even better drum tabs ?

This would then be support for a full separate file format. and usually ASCII tabs are not really following a common standard. They are not really suited for machine reading and many people usually write it slightly adjusted which makes it impossible to properly support them. So I guess I will rather not add support for ascii drum tabs but I'm happy to accept contributions.

\instrument 119 stand for Synth Drum

Midi instrument 119 might be 'Synth Drum' from the sound but it is not a midi percussion instrument. it has the same sounds for all note heights. You have to consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI#Percussion for that.

[Danielku15]

1.4.0-alpha.1026 has now support for percussion tracks via alphaTex:

https://next.alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/percussion