RE: Pitch-bent note's release-phase

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Sabey
Hello, Graham, and thank you for responding. Since sending my initial enquiry to this list I have indeed written an app which confirmed to me what you say. Thanks also for that Python app. I plumped for your Python v.3.2 version and installed Python v.3.2 accordingly. There is a problem, in

Re: Pitch-bent note's release-phase

2011-06-20 Thread Graham Breed
Richard Sabey richardsa...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Since sending my initial enquiry to this list I have indeed written an app which confirmed to me what you say. Right. I also have a file that shows Timidity will share the tuning of a note even between channels, so that F and F# come out the

Pitch-bent note's release-phase

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Sabey
I notice that, if a note is not a whole number of semitones from c (so a MIDI pitch bend message must be sent), then the release phase of the sound is not pitch bent. Is this unavoidable behaviour of MIDI or a deficiency in Lilypond? See the example below. The first note and rest show the

Re: Pitch-bent note's release-phase

2011-06-19 Thread Graham Breed
Richard Sabey richardsa...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: But you don't need this problem when a note allocated to a channel is followed by a rest in that channel. Is Lilypond writing a MIDI pitch wheel change message to take effect at the same instant as the MIDI note off message? If I'm right (I