On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:53 AM, drew Roberts
<zotz(a)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) Trigger, a new voice is assigned and will play simultaneously to
previous voices
So... which "real" instruments work like a, which like b, and
which like c?
most acoustic instruments works like (b) because their sound producing
mechanisms use a particular set of material (possibly the entire
instrument) to generate a particular note. if you just hit/stroke/blow
it again, it starts a new sound using the same note.
i can't think of any acoustic instruments that can do (c) because it
would imply some means of generating more than 1 "copy" of the same
voice.
(a) would imply an instrument that can just ignored a performance
gesture some fo the time, and again, its hard to think of any acoustic
instrument that could do that.
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
sounds relatively natural. Perhaps because of a time difference for the
transient oscillation of the resonance head?