Re: Defect: quarter tones sound bad before rest

[Keith OHara]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> I have discovered that notes that use quarter tone sound bad before
> rests or at the end of the melody.  Here's an example:

> Everything sounds right until the last cih' that bends at the end.

I cannot hear the end-of-note bends on my player, but I have heard them before.

MIDI encodes music as if it were being performed by up to 16 polyphonic 
equal-tempered keyboards, each with its own pitch-bend wheel.  LilyPond's MIDI 
output returns the pitch-bend wheel to center immediately after releasing the 
key, which seems correct.  Maybe your playback software simulates an echo 
(sometimes called reverb) and applies the changed pitch-bend setting to the 
echo?

Quoting Ralph Palmer:
> It is my understanding that midi is not officially supported. Is that
> correct, or not?

The LilyPond community has tried to make MIDI good enough to be useful as a 
proof-reading method for the scores.  This makes sense to me, because it 
supports the primary goal of LilyPond in making correct printed scores.