27 Oct
2003
27 Oct
'03
8:44 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:44:45PM +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
Assume no sustain pedal for now.
When I press C2 I hear the note. When I release it the sound does not
vanish immediately but takes a small amout of time to decay due to the
release envelope. If after releasing C2 I immediately press C2 again I
hear two C2 notes for a brief time.
Now same situation as above but with the sustain pedal
pressed.
You hear the first C2, release it (the corresponding note-off is
postponed) and then press C2 again.
In that case is it correct that you must hear two sustained C2 notes.
Or must the first C2 be forced to get faded out / muted ?
If not (eg you hear two sustained C2 notes), how far can this go ?
Can there be 3, 4 etc sustained notes on the same key too ?
Most synths will just restart the note on the same voice in both cases,
i.e. begin a new attack phase at the level the previous (same) note had
reached during its release. So there will one be at most one note of a
particular pitch at the same time.
Small pedantic note: a piano has more than one string per note, but
you always play them all together :-) It's one of the reasons why a
decent piano sound is quite hard to synthesize.
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