Re: [fluid-dev] improving musical timekeeping

2020-02-08 Thread huban...@gmail.com
Thank you for your time. I've written my comments inline. 2020.02.08. 15:41 keltezéssel, Tom M. írta: Here are some thoughts of a software engineer. Not sure what a musician would say. First of all, you are right. A "meaningfully long" attack phase will "delay" note on and thus shorten it. My q

Re: [fluid-dev] improving musical timekeeping

2020-02-08 Thread Reinhold Hoffmann
Hi, I totally agree to what Marcus says. It is up to the musician/composer and the style of music. Good and professional recorded MIDI files include the recommended behaviour using the existing MIDI protocol elements. Those MIDI files, of course, are complex. I think that the required feature c

Re: [fluid-dev] improving musical timekeeping

2020-02-08 Thread Marcus Weseloh
Hi, I think the answer is hidden in your question. You talk about "the meaningful musical onset of the note exactly on time". The thing is that what is "musically meaningful" depends very heavily on the context. In some musical contexts it might be correct to say that you want the end of the atta

Re: [fluid-dev] improving musical timekeeping

2020-02-08 Thread Tom M. via fluid-dev
Here are some thoughts of a software engineer. Not sure what a musician would say. First of all, you are right. A "meaningfully long" attack phase will "delay" note on and thus shorten it. My question: what would be the use-case of such a "meaningfully long" attack? The only use-case I can think o