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 gets played from the top
c) Trigger, a new voice is assigned and will play simultaneously to
previous voices
a) and b) both might make sense for a monophonic synth part, but in the
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).
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 terms, that is ...)
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.