Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Louis B.
But to simulate the other piano strings resonating in sympathy when the sustain pedal is pressed then you want to have some chorus/echo effect at the same time as the sustain pedal is pressed. If the piece has been recorded from live keyboard playing then removing the sustain pedal will totally ch

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:33:23AM +0100, Louis B. wrote: > Obviously that should read "as well as the sustain MIDI signal" as you want > both MIDI signals to operate at the same time. No, if you want 'releasing a key' to do anything at all, you need to not have the sustain switch active, because

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Louis B.
Obviously that should read "as well as the sustain MIDI signal" as you want both MIDI signals to operate at the same time. On Oct 25, 2011 7:00 AM, "Matt Giuca" wrote: > > It wouldn't be that explicit. You would do it by hooking a modulator >> to some CC input and using it to extend the volume de

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Matt Giuca
> It wouldn't be that explicit. You would do it by hooking a modulator > to some CC input and using it to extend the volume decay phase - you > can do that in the soundfont or the synth. > > However, I don't see a way to do it with the sustain pedal, since that > suppresses all noteoff events while

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:03:00AM +1100, Matt Giuca wrote: > Well, this Creative Labs page suggests that that feature isn't in the > SoundFont spec: > http://www.creative.com/soundblaster/soundfont/tutorials/welcome.asp?articleid=54142&page=7 > > There is an envelope parameter called "Sustain" bu

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Matt Giuca
> On Roland midi pianos they simulate the effect when the sustain pedal is > down of the other undamped piano strings resonating in sympathy when a piano > hammer strikes a single note? > I suppose it could be that. For me it works on non-piano instruments too. I have a Yamaha PSR-550. Well, this

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Louis B.
On Roland midi pianos they simulate the effect when the sustain pedal is down of the other undamped piano strings resonating in sympathy when a piano hammer strikes a single note? Is this something that fluidsynth can do? Or are we talking about something complete different? __

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread David Henningsson
On 2011-10-24 11:01, Matt Giuca wrote: Hi fluid-dev, I have a question about the synth. I've noticed that my music keyboard's built-in synth has a particularly nice property that if the key is released while the sustain pedal is pressed, the note will begin to fade out. In other words, pushing a

Re: [fluid-dev] Major degradation in sound quality & cpu usage going from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10

2011-10-24 Thread David Henningsson
2011-10-23 21:45, Aere Greenway skrev: David: I will attempt to test the older version on Ubuntu 11.10. I am assuming I can get the different versions somewhere (perhaps the FluidSynth web-site). When installing from the Ubuntu repositories, I haven't seen any way to choose levels of the so

[fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Matt Giuca
Hi fluid-dev, I have a question about the synth. I've noticed that my music keyboard's built-in synth has a particularly nice property that if the key is released while the sustain pedal is pressed, the note will begin to fade out. In other words, pushing a key and holding it is *not* the same as