Re: Defect: quarter tones sound bad before rest

[David Kastrup]

"Keith OHara" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

The key release is not the end of the tone.  It is merely the
_beginning_ of the end.  I know no instrument that cuts the tone just
off.  The closest are probably monophonic instruments when played legato
(the principal resonator does not need to get rid of its energy but just
changes its frequency).

-- 
David Kastrup