On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:46:26 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Yuval Harel wrote:
Hello,
When a note is attacked while it is already playing, no MIDI event is
generated. This occurs often in piano notation.
Here is an example:
I think that correct MIDI behavior isn't well documented. IIRC, some
midi players will not let notes stop if you restart them without
stopping them first. (I could be mistaken though).
I wouldn't think so. I don't have the MIDI standard available, but I
experimented with this a bit.
I played the following MIDI sequence with my Creative Sound Blaster Live
synthesizer and with a Roland ep-75:
note-on, note-on, note-off, note-off
(all in the same pitch and on the same MIDI track)
Both synthesizers play the second note-on. The Roland also seems to
release the first note first
when playing a piano, but not when playing other instruments. I'm not sure
whether the Creative
also releases the note for the piano, because the release is not very
pronouced there (sounds
like a simple fade-out).
For non-pianos, both synths double the note after the second note-on.
The first note-off causes the Sound Blaster synth to stop both notes,
whereas the Roland
only stops one of them, stopping the other on the second note off.
I would guess the Roland's behavior is more standard. Simply outputting a
note-on for every note
attacked and note-off for every note released seems like the right
behavior for such instruments.
In any case it's probably better than putting nothing in the output.
Yuval
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