Re: PartCombine

[Craig Bakalian]

Hi Reinhold,

Then what you are saying is that the warning is for MIDI performance and
not for note layout?  That it has to do with the MIDI duration of the
tone? 

Craig Bakalian

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 19:41 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Montag, 16. Mai 2011, 12:12:58 schrieb Craig Bakalian:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Am I reading this correctly- in the warning for using \partcombine
> > 
> > \partcombine only observes onset times of notes. It cannot determine
> > whether a previously started note is playing or not, leading to various
> > problems.
> > 
> > So this means if oboe 1 is playing sixteenth notes and then oboe 2
> > enters into the staff and starts with quarter notes, will oboe 1 start
> > to print quarter notes?  "It cannot determine whether a previously
> > started note"?  "Various problems"?
> 
> No, it's actually the other way round: 
> Imagine a score where oboe 1 sets in with a whole note and oboe 2 has a 
> quarter rest and then sets in.
> At the second quarter (when oboe 2 sets in), the part combiner no longer has 
> the information that oboe 1 is playing (since it only looks at onsets, but 
> not 
> durations of notes), so it will only observe oboe 2 and mark it as solo...
> 
> Durations of notes are never changed, the part-combiner might just take the 
> wrong decision (one of these five: solo 1, solo 2, unison, displayed as 
> chords 
> or apart).
> 
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
>