Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI mode

[josh]

Quoting David Henningsson <address@hidden>:

> S. Christian Collins wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Oh yes, we have talked about it. AFAIK it began when I proposed the
> same solution a month ago, when the idea was still mine! ;-)
>
> See http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/ticket/1
>
> And to sum it up; I like it mainly for the reasons you like it, Josh
> doesn't like it "since it isn't really the defined behavior for GM/GS
> and the delay would be awkward to get right with different SoundFont
> files".
>
> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2009-10/msg00013.html and
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2009-10/msg00018.html
> for example.
>
> // David


Alright alright..  I guess its 2 against 1.  What a pain!  ;)

We could implement both, via the percuss-note-off setting: "auto",  
"ignore", "min-duration".  Then we could add a percuss-min-duration  
parameter to specify the minimum duration in msecs or something.

Any ideas how we can implement this minimum note duration?  I think  
part of the reason I was avoiding it, is because its not as easy to  
implement as the ignore setting, which is already implemented.

Just kicking around some thoughts:
If a note-off occurs we can check the voice ticks and if its been  
playing for less than the percuss-min-duration, then we have to go for  
the remaining ticks before actually responding to the note off.  So I  
guess some extra min_duration_ticks value which counts down would work.

Josh