Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:55 +0100, James Morris wrote: >> >> >>> A string of note-ons following each other all for the same pitch n >>> without >>> any intervening note-offs for pitch n, IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE provided >>> they are INTENTIONAL and NOT accidental. >>> >>> >> >> Yes, except for that this is an absurdity that could only happen by >> accidental programming. > > Isn't there the consensus that the c) thing will cause the same sound, > as the sound that will be produced, when the sustain pedal is used? > And that it's allowed by the MIDI specs to do this without using a > sustain pedal, but by using a sequencer were it's edited that the same > note will overlap? It might be useful to produce some random phasing > synth sound, but there's absolutely no natural instrument were this > could happen. > > By the way, I right now played a very good DX7 Mark III sound, hold > the sustain pedal and played the same notes again and again and the > sound became bad. I dunno, but I hope that for a Clavinova a Mark > sound even would be "reset" when the sustain pedal is hold and the > same notes will be played again and again. > > Anyway, "except for that this is an absurdity that could only happen > by accidental programming", it's not an absurdity, it's possible to do > this by using any sequencer, but most times it's unwanted, because it > seldom sound good and it never sounds natural. Some sequencers have > functions that allow to delete "same notes".
PS: Btw. I was mistaken because of the drum samples, even there a note off event won't cause the machine-gun effect, when the first note simply has it's release time instead of being interrupted, while the second note starts. I guess for good drum samples uncontrollable phasing is avoided by having layers, resp. fine random pitch shifting. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
