On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:44:45PM +0100, Benno Senoner wrote: > Assume no sustain pedal for now. > When I press C2 I hear the note. When I release it the sound does not > vanish immediately but takes a small amout of time to decay due to the > release envelope. If after releasing C2 I immediately press C2 again I > hear two C2 notes for a brief time.
> Now same situation as above but with the sustain pedal pressed. > You hear the first C2, release it (the corresponding note-off is > postponed) and then press C2 again. > In that case is it correct that you must hear two sustained C2 notes. > Or must the first C2 be forced to get faded out / muted ? > If not (eg you hear two sustained C2 notes), how far can this go ? > Can there be 3, 4 etc sustained notes on the same key too ? Most synths will just restart the note on the same voice in both cases, i.e. begin a new attack phase at the level the previous (same) note had reached during its release. So there will one be at most one note of a particular pitch at the same time. Small pedantic note: a piano has more than one string per note, but you always play them all together :-) It's one of the reasons why a decent piano sound is quite hard to synthesize. --
