2010/3/6 Reinhold Kainhofer <reinh...@kainhofer.com>: > Am Samstag, 6. März 2010 08:47:56 schrieb David Raleigh Arnold: >> 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 know several choral pieces where the dynamics change on a single note. E.g. > in Reutter's " Ecce Quomodo" there is a whole note with p on the first two > beats and f on the last two beats. This cannot be expressed by velocity, which > is modelled after a keyboard, but is unable to express dynamic changes other > instruments are able to do. > Similarly, an organ swell on a single note cannot be done with velocity, but > only via volume.
there are also channel pressure and polyphonic pressure. Not much used and not very compatible, though -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
