On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:53 AM, drew Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The question is what happens at the other end when a note gets struck a >> second time. >> >> a) Nothing, the note is already on. >> b) Re-trigger, the voice is reset and the note gets played from the top >> c) Trigger, a new voice is assigned and will play simultaneously to >> previous voices > > So... which "real" instruments work like a, which like b, and which like c? most acoustic instruments works like (b) because their sound producing mechanisms use a particular set of material (possibly the entire instrument) to generate a particular note. if you just hit/stroke/blow it again, it starts a new sound using the same note. i can't think of any acoustic instruments that can do (c) because it would imply some means of generating more than 1 "copy" of the same voice. (a) would imply an instrument that can just ignored a performance gesture some fo the time, and again, its hard to think of any acoustic instrument that could do that. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
