Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI mode

[S. Christian Collins]

address@hidden wrote:
> > On the other hand, we have people relying on sound effects not being
> > looped endlessly (as pointed out by Christian).
> I think the answer to that, is to always honor note-offs for looped 
> instruments.
This will fail on many percussion sounds in a GM bank that have a looped 
tail (tom toms in GeneralUser, TR-808 bass drum, cymbals, etc.).

Nobody has said anything about my proposed solution to this problem.  I 
hate to be a pain, but it really is an ideal solution that eliminates 
the need for all of this discussion about when to note-off or not.

To reiterate my idea:
In my plan, note-off events wouldn't be eliminated, but instead required 
to be at least 8 ms after the note-on event.  We'd simply be creating a 
minimum possible note duration (8-10 ms) to allow the note to get 
through the attack phase.  As far as I can tell from my testing in the 
past, this appears to be similar to the technique that Creative uses in 
their SoundFont playback engine, because I can't find any evidence that 
they are ever ignoring note-offs.

I believe my idea solves the drums-not-sounding problem without creating 
any new ones.  It completely solves the headache of "which notes do we 
still need note-offs for", it eliminates the risk of possible "stuck" 
notes.  It can be used for GM/GS/XG, whatever.  I would even say that 
you could use this technique by default regardless of whether GM/GS mode 
is enabled or not, because there are *no* adverse effects.  Only benefits.

-~Chris