[LAD] successive note on midi events

[James Morris]

On Tue, April 13, 2010 13:13, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>
> wrote:
>> For sustained sounds, I'd guess that the first note-off applies to all.
>
> and then there are sounds that have their own "natural" length. my
> kawai k5000 which does additive and wavetable synthesis has quite a
> few patches that have "natural" decay/release curves built into the
> patch. a note off does nothing but terminate the sound early. if you
> don't send a note off, the voice will still decay, but it will hog one
> of the available voice slots.

Percussion sounds by any chance?

For instance, to simulate _not_ removing your hand when striking a bongo etc?