> On Saturday, January 28, 2012, Julie S wrote:
>
>> Sounds like we are all on the same page then. I was just concerned
>> because
>> earlier version of the code had a hard coded if (channel == 10) then
>> "don't do magic" line in it.
>
> I see what you mean, although I think we just about still have to reserve
> channel 10 for use by percussion, and not allow it to be allocated freely
> like
> any other channel. Otherwise, if Rosegarden wanted to use channel 10 for
> a
> piano or something, it would have to know how to turn percussion off on
> that
> channel.
That's exactly how it is right now in the branch. I would have made it
more flexible, but of the two things it would be useful for, neither was
available to me. That is, flexible devices and pooling identical devices.
> This seems to imply Rosegarden needing to know more about the
> characteristics
> of a device than what is currently defined in a device definition;
> specifically, how to turn percussion mode off and on per channel. There
> isn't
> just one way to do this, and it definitely doesn't seem worth it to me to
> get
> into all that.
Ah. I was wondering about exactly that.
If it varies by device characteristics, that's more than I'm up for. I
check percussion-ness via MidiDevice::isPercussionNumber (no more "== 9"s
scattered around), so if someone works on that, making isPercussionNumber
smarter should make it all work (I hope. No way to test that theory now)
> I'm not sure what the implications are for somebody who uses some other
> means
> to set up percussion mode on channel 16, say. That's probably where being
> able to fix the channel to the instrument number (#16 to 16) will come
> into
> play, and that will _probably_ be sufficient.
I think so too. It satisfies every case I can think of.
Tom Breton (Tehom)
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