Paul Davis wrote: > 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.
c) If you e.g. play the e string of a guitar at the 5th fret and then the a string, while the guitar is normal e, a, d, g, b, e tuned. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
