On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Alessandro Warth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jay, > While the MIDI format doesn't care about matching ONs and OFFs, there's a > good chance that the player tidies up (by sending an "all notes off" message > to the hardware) once it's done playing a file. So this could end up working > in some platforms, but not in others... > I guess we won't know until we try. > Cheers, > Alex
Thanks, yes - I was just thinking of all those times I've had a looping MIDI file playing, then slotted in another MIDI file to take its place (for the next section of music), and found I had notes stuck playing from the first MIDI cause they never got their NOTE-OFF messages. But I'm sure you're right - in fact can't remember the situation I describe happening with something as self-contained as the Quicktime player (never tried it using Javascript either). > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Jay Hardesty <[email protected]> >> As far as I know a MIDI player does not care where (or from which >> file) a MIDI ON, or subsequent MIDI OFF message comes from. >> Each is just a pair of bytes arriving from wherever. more specifically, I should have said : a pair of data bytes following a status byte.. Jay _______________________________________________ lively-kernel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/listinfo/lively-kernel
