On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:21:37 -0500 "D. Michael McIntyre" <rosegarden.trumpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 02/18/2019 06:48 PM, Ted Felix wrote: > >> This is an interesting case. I've confirmed this. It's likely that >> no one ever expected a user to do this. So, there's no extra code in rg >> to send NOTE OFF events when the current track is switched. > >I'm going off memory here, but I'm pretty sure this very issue is why >the original developers implemented the panic button at my request. >Richard Bown's doing, I think, but it could have been Chris or >Guillaume. I've found myself in that situation fairly often, while just >randomly dinking around as part of the creative process. There are >other ways to get stuck notes as well, like changing programs on a >hardware synth with its controls while playback is rolling. I'm pretty >sure I used to run into the same issues with my circa 1995 copy of >Cakewalk on Windows, which is what informed most of the expectations I >had of Rosegarden. I went looking for Rosegarden's panic button, >because I was used to reaching for it. > >Rosegarden could send note offs when the user changes tracks, but it's >impossible to address that last case. Well, I guess now that there is >some feedback into the IPB program controls ([x] receive external) I >guess it's not impossible, but it's impossible in my case, since I only >run MIDI one way to that synth. > >Anyway, I'm neither arguing for nor against any proposed changes. I'm >just mentioning how I've made it this far without feeling like anything >was behaving incorrectly. > To make this change would actually break known and accepted MIDI behaviour. I would prefer it to stay as it is. Indeed with Yoshimi we actually make use of a variation of this effect - initially after I realised you could make use of it to set up drones and effectively give yourself a third hand. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
