On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 7:54 AM <msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023, David Wright wrote: > > > players. But that's the problem here. When two real voices happen on > > the same note, the result doesn't sound like one louder voice, yet > > that's the effect you get from MIDI,¹ where the "two" voices are > > Not on *my* MIDI synthesizer. Two notes are two notes! I'm inclined to > be concerned by this because I do a lot of doubling of notes between > different MIDI channels. Each channel plays on a different patch, or in a > separate monophonic recording run on the same patch, and a doubled note is > quite different from a louder note. > > If LilyPond were to start automatically deleting notes because someone > think's it's a bug for unisons to exist between MIDI tracks, it would make > the pile of workarounds I already need to use to get decent MIDI out of > LilyPond, that much worse. >
Well, I didn't say it was a bug, and surely two MIDI tracks should normally play two notes, especially if they are different instruments. But I'm talking about a specific piano performance technique. When two voices (hands) have the same note written, the pianist doesn't play the same note with both hands. Instead they pick a hand to play the note and leave the note out of the other hand. This is why I suggested that the MIDI performer could ignore \parenthesize notes. Would this create a pile of workarounds for you? -- Knute Snortum
