Re: [LAD] automation on Linux (modular approach)

Not exactly note-pitch. That's a common simplification/myth. MIDI uses 'key-number'. E.g. key number 12 is *usually* tuned to C0, but is easily re-tuned to C1, two keys can be tuned to the same pitch yet still be addressed independently. It's a common shortcut to say MIDI-key-number 'is the pitch', it's actually an index into a table of pitches. Synths can switch that tuning table to handle other scales. A MIDI note-on causes a synth to allocate a physical voice. That physical voice is temporarily mapped to that MIDI-key-number so that subsequent note control is directed to that voice. The mapping is temporary. Once the note is done the mapping is erased. Playing the same key later will likely allocate a different physical voice. The MIDI-key-number is therefore an 'ID' mapping a control-source to a physical-voice. I agree that addressing notes unambiguously regardless of pitch (or any other arbitrary property) is the ideal. I wish more sequencers were not locked into a narrow 'western pop music' mode of operation. But many MIDI alternatives have been proposed without looking deeply enough to realise that MIDI already supports very flexible note control. MIDI's significant flaw is it's grossly outdated 7-bit resolution, the underlying voice model is sound. You have re-invented MIDI with different nomenclature ;-). Best Regards, Jeff McClintock