Jens M Andreasen wrote:
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:55 +0100, James Morris
wrote:
A string of note-ons following each other all for
the same pitch n
without
any intervening note-offs for pitch n, IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE provided
they are INTENTIONAL and NOT accidental.
Yes, except for that this is an absurdity that could only happen by
accidental programming.
Isn't there the consensus that the c) thing will cause the same sound,
as the sound that will be produced, when the sustain pedal is used?
And that it's allowed by the MIDI specs to do this without using a
sustain pedal, but by using a sequencer were it's edited that the same
note will overlap? It might be useful to produce some random phasing
synth sound, but there's absolutely no natural instrument were this
could happen.
By the way, I right now played a very good DX7 Mark III sound, hold
the sustain pedal and played the same notes again and again and the
sound became bad. I dunno, but I hope that for a Clavinova a Mark
sound even would be "reset" when the sustain pedal is hold and the
same notes will be played again and again.
Anyway, "except for that this is an absurdity that could only happen
by accidental programming", it's not an absurdity, it's possible to do
this by using any sequencer, but most times it's unwanted, because it
seldom sound good and it never sounds natural. Some sequencers have
functions that allow to delete "same notes".
PS: Btw. I was mistaken because of the drum samples, even there a note
off event won't cause the machine-gun effect, when the first note simply
has it's release time instead of being interrupted, while the second
note starts. I guess for good drum samples uncontrollable phasing is
avoided by having layers, resp. fine random pitch shifting.