Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI mode

[S. Christian Collins]

address@hidden wrote:
> It still seems a bit weird to me to try and pick a minimum note 
> duration, which will work well with most instruments, which could have 
> different attack durations, etc.  It may be that it works fine in 
> practice though.  I just don't like it.  If you have a percussion 
> instrument that has a short release phase, you'll just end up with a 
> 8ms or 10ms percussion sound, so it will still get cut short and sound 
> weird.  If a MIDI file is truly expecting note-offs to be ignored, it 
> wont be getting that behavior.
In theory, however, there shouldn't be percussion instruments with short 
release times, unless that instrument's length is variable (guiro, 
whistle, SFX).  There are two conventions that are understood regarding 
this:
 1.  Instruments that are struck and then resonate are programmed with 
an appropriately long release to allow the sample to play fully 
regardless of how long the note is held down... just like a real 
percussion instrument.
 2.  Sequencers that program 0-length MIDI events expect the above 
behavior.

Assuming the sample programmer in convention #1 did his job correctly, 
convention #2 will always work with the note-off delay.

-~Chris