On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:12:59 -0800 "Keith OHara" <k-ohara5...@oco.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski <at> gnu.org> > wrote: > > > I have discovered that notes that use quarter tone sound bad before > > rests or at the end of the melody. Here's an example: > > > Everything sounds right until the last cih' that bends at the end. > > I cannot hear the end-of-note bends on my player, but I have heard > them before. > > MIDI encodes music as if it were being performed by up to 16 > polyphonic equal-tempered keyboards, each with its own pitch-bend > wheel. LilyPond's MIDI output returns the pitch-bend wheel to center > immediately after releasing the key, which seems correct. I hope the "wheel" has no moment of inertia and returns to 0 immediately. If not, I'd say it's an unhelpful effort to simulate limitations of the instrument. It would be nice to keep the pitch-bend wheel in the given position until the note that doesn't need it. > Maybe your > playback software simulates an echo (sometimes called reverb) and > applies the changed pitch-bend setting to the echo? I tried several options on timidity. The only option that has any effect is --fast-decay, but it only lessens the effect without eliminating it completely. Some other instruments don't have a noticeable bend, for instance viola, but they don't sound nice for a warmup, and the chords sound terrible. Amazingly, "choir aahs" have a significant bend. That doesn't correspond to the physical reality, does it? :) So I settled on "electric piano 1" with "timidity --fast-decay". It sounds reasonable for my purpose. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
