Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 00:52 +0100, James Morris wrote: On Mon, April 12, 2010 00:38, James Morris wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure I've seen this dealt with on the list before, but can't find it. With the program I'm fumbling around trying to create, it will be possible for successive

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
James Morris wrote: On Mon, April 12, 2010 00:38, James Morris wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure I've seen this dealt with on the list before, but can't find it. With the program I'm fumbling around trying to create, it will be possible for successive note on events for the same pitch to

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
James Morris wrote: On Mon, April 12, 2010 00:38, James Morris wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure I've seen this dealt with on the list before, but can't find it. With the program I'm fumbling around trying to create, it will be possible for successive note on events for the same pitch to

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 08:07 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: The question is what happens at the other end when a note gets struck a second time. a) Nothing, the note is already on. b) Re-trigger, the voice is reset and the note gets played from the top c) Trigger, a new voice is assigned

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 08:07 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: The question is what happens at the other end when a note gets struck a second time. a) Nothing, the note is already on. b) Re-trigger, the voice is reset and the note gets played from the top c) Trigger,

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 10:26 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 08:07 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: The question is what happens at the other end when a note gets struck a second time. a) Nothing, the note is already on. b) Re-trigger, the voice is reset and the note

Re: [LAD] Interface development for the blind (starting from Bristol)

2010-04-12 Thread Nick Copeland
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:16:40 +0200 From: jul...@c-lab.de never saw anyone doing that. So if you have pairs of information, try to put them in one or the other half of these 80 chars, not somewhere in between. The code attempts to use a single 40 character line as per you comments on

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
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

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Jens M Andreasen jens.andrea...@comhem.se wrote: 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. within JACK and ALSA *sequencer*

Re: [LAD] Interface development for the blind (starting from Bristol)

2010-04-12 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello Nick! Again such a nice update. Thanks for that. I can move my braille display easily enough. The system screen stays the same, so every bgraille display has navigation controls of some sort to move the small window, that I can see, across the real screen. Completely in order for

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
James Morris wrote: On Mon, April 12, 2010 07:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote: James Morris wrote: On Mon, April 12, 2010 00:38, James Morris wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure I've seen this dealt with on the list before, but can't find it. With the program I'm fumbling around trying

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread drew Roberts
On Monday 12 April 2010 02:07:07 Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 00:52 +0100, James Morris wrote: On Mon, April 12, 2010 00:38, James Morris wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure I've seen this dealt with on the list before, but can't find it. With the program I'm fumbling

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:53 AM, drew Roberts z...@100jamz.com wrote: The question is what happens at the other end when a note gets struck a second time. a) Nothing, the note is already on. b) Re-trigger, the voice is reset and the note gets played from the top c)

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Because of c) you seems to be right OTOH e.g. a natural tom or snare played two times does sound different to a drum sample played two times, while the first sample is cut, but if the first sample isn't cut it

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: c) If you e.g. play the e string of a guitar at the 5th fret and then the a string, while the guitar is normal e, a, d, g, b, e tuned. this is not equivalent to the polyphony offered by an electronic keyboard. the

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread torbenh
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:33:00AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: c) If you e.g. play the e string of a guitar at the 5th fret and then the a string, while the guitar is normal e, a, d, g, b, e tuned. this is not

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
i dont see how real instruments and midi events are related. this is pretty OT :P MIDI has been always about real musical instruments. Do you think that electronic instruments are not real? The Yamaha Disklavier is not a real instrument? A MIDIfied pipe organ? Regards, Pedro

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread James Morris
On Mon, April 12, 2010 12:47, James Morris wrote: 2) when a missing note-off detected, delay the note-on by the smallest amount of time possible, and insert the note-off in place of it. Any thoughts on that? Or send a note-off for pitch n followed by a note on for pitch n within the same

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread James Morris
On Mon, April 12, 2010 09:26, Thorsten Wilms wrote: polyphonic case, it should be c). Doubling a note seems perfectly reasonable to me and accidental surplus Note-Ons are simply not acceptable (I'm also not aware of that being a common problem). Ok, ok, ok, my last question, this has got me

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:55 +0100, James Morris wrote: A string of note-ons following each other all for the same pitch n without any intervening note-offs for pitch n, IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE provided they are INTENTIONAL and NOT accidental. Yes, except for that this is an absurdity that

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:55 +0100, James Morris wrote: A string of note-ons following each other all for the same pitch n without any intervening note-offs for pitch n, IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE provided they are INTENTIONAL and NOT accidental. Yes, except

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:55 +0100, James Morris wrote: A string of note-ons following each other all for the same pitch n without any intervening note-offs for pitch n, IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE provided they are INTENTIONAL and NOT accidental.