On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:36:25PM +0100, Crypto wrote: > There are many instruments that in real life never need a manual action to > stop their sound, for example most if not all percussion instruments and > drums. For these, sound can "only" be triggered and then just plays, there is > no way to stop it, apart maybe from rigorously damping it. Damping notes on a percussion instrument is quite a normal thing to do... Apart from this, MIDI is very keyboard-centric, and it shows in all sorts of ways. For example, on any channel, note-on events are identified only by their note number, so you can't have e.g. two independent events of the same frequenccy. I guess many synhts that have limitied polyphony use the note-off event in the voice assignment algorithm - if not the patch has to tell it when a note has ended and the voice can be re-used. So they may depend on it. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
