Hi folks... it's me again, with my attempts to use hydrogen for live drum playing. After seeing how mute groups work for the hihat pedal silencing the hihat cymbal, I thought I'll be smart and define a pad of my MIDI kit as "cymbal choke": This pad with a silent note in one mute group with the crash cymbals, having the effect of choking the cymbals when hitting the pad. So, emulating what the Roland drum machine emits as "polyphonic aftertouch".
I now realized that this is a bad idea with the mute groups how they work now: With crash1 and crash2 in one mute group, they will mute each other. So that got me thinking: Do we really want things in mute groups to mute each other, or mostly just instrument A muting instrument B, but not the other way round? I intended my special "mute note" to mute both cymbals, but the cymbals shall only be passive in the muting business, never mute something themselves. Would it make sense for you to add such a "passive mute" flag to instruments? The workaround I'll use now is to define to specific mute notes + groups, one for each crash cymbal (I am relieved that a cymbal does not mute itself), and have my MIDI filter program, that already maps the hihat, duplicate any note event on the choke pad to emit both choking notes... But, well, I think this might be a good idea to have as hydrogen feature. Or not? Alrighty then, Thomas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
