Go right a head and implement your suggestion--- Lilypond is open source you know...
---hsm On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:38 AM, David Raleigh Arnold <d...@openguitar.com> wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2010 03:12:11 David Kastrup wrote: >> David Raleigh Arnold <d...@openguitar.com> writes: >> > Ideally the volume should be preset for each instrument according to >> > ratios expressing the relative natural loudness of the instrument, IOW >> > set it and forget it, and only velocity should be used for dynamics. >> > That is obviously the purpose of the design. Why fight it? No good >> > can come from twiddling the volume in the middle of the performance. >> >> I have a (not quite cheap) Ketron Keyboard with a volume pedal. I was >> rather surprised to realize that putting it to zero would >> a) considerably lower the volume of notes already hit >> b) completely stop new notes from being sounded >> >> I would have thought that it would act more or less as a simple analog >> volume control, but it would appear that it _partially_ affects notes >> already hit. >> >> Interesting. I have not checked the corresponding Midi messages, >> though. >> > > Ha! The volumes should be part of the instrument specifications for > any lilypond/midi document, and dynamics should relate to velocity > alone. To do otherwise was a major mistake in the midi implementation in > lilypond. It would be a very good idea to quit trying to make > it work in some other way. > > Of course the "solution" to the "problem" is to instantiate a new > voice, instrument and volume for every dynamic. Surely a lot > of trouble for nothing. Regards, daveA > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
