On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 12:30 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > Surprisingly, all classical polyphonic keyboards like piano and organ > works according to 'a'. If you - while playing four-handed piano - > accidentally strikes a note already held by the other player, nothing > will happen (in musical terms, that is ...) > > Polyphony is what is supposed to happen when you strike /different/ > notes and doubling notes will normally be done by pressing the > hold-pedal and then striking the note twice.
There is no compulsory need to enforce the keyboard model unto the interpretation of MIDI. I don't think it should be part of a definition of polyphony, which to me simply is the simultaneous use of more than one voice, be that from a single or multiple instruments. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
