On Saturday 06 March 2010 03:12:11 David Kastrup wrote: > David Raleigh Arnold <d...@openguitar.com> writes: > > Ideally the volume should be preset for each instrument according to > > ratios expressing the relative natural loudness of the instrument, IOW > > set it and forget it, and only velocity should be used for dynamics. > > That is obviously the purpose of the design. Why fight it? No good > > can come from twiddling the volume in the middle of the performance. > > I have a (not quite cheap) Ketron Keyboard with a volume pedal. I was > rather surprised to realize that putting it to zero would > a) considerably lower the volume of notes already hit > b) completely stop new notes from being sounded > > I would have thought that it would act more or less as a simple analog > volume control, but it would appear that it _partially_ affects notes > already hit. > > Interesting. I have not checked the corresponding Midi messages, > though. >
Ha! The volumes should be part of the instrument specifications for any lilypond/midi document, and dynamics should relate to velocity alone. To do otherwise was a major mistake in the midi implementation in lilypond. It would be a very good idea to quit trying to make it work in some other way. Of course the "solution" to the "problem" is to instantiate a new voice, instrument and volume for every dynamic. Surely a lot of trouble for nothing. Regards, daveA _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
