Channels (Was: Talkin' 'bout Marc Jones

In-Reply-To: <a55qb5+if08@...>
Me:
> > Why are people holding chords like that anyway? If you lift your
> > left hand up occasionally it adds a bit of rhythm, and the channels
> > get reassigned.

jonszanto:
> Wait, Graham! I know that development of the midi widgets is not, for
> you, a Full Time Job. But shouldn't a robust tool(set) encompass as
> much of what anyone would like to do? Doesn't a question like "why
> are people [fill in the blank]?" ultimately serve to limit artistic
> exploration?

Oh yes, it *should* work that way, and it was top of the list of changes
last time I was able to compile it. The only way forward now is to
rewrite the whole thing and do it properly. That isn't urgent, because
Fractal Tune Smithy does the same job better.

jonszanto:
> This is not to say there might not be limitations the tool simply
> cannot get past, but don't put the onus on the user to reduce *their*
> options! No?

At the time I originally wrote it, I decided to reduce *my* options as a
user rather than go in and rewrite the channel allocation. It took a long
time to write in the first place, and with my knowledge of C++ data
structures back then it would have taken a lot more time away from music
making to iron out this wrinkle. I didn't realize other people were going
to hit that problem, because music on paper or records doesn't have chords
in one hand and melodies in the other that I've ever noticed.

Graham

--- In metatuning@y..., graham@m... wrote:

> I didn't realize other people were going
> to hit that problem, because music on paper or records doesn't have
chords
> in one hand and melodies in the other that I've ever noticed.

really, graham? i guess we have different records! and the music we
were making didn't even use the sustain pedal -- i wonder what would
happen if we had been using it . . .

paulerlich wrote:

> really, graham? i guess we have different records! and the music we
> were making didn't even use the sustain pedal -- i wonder what would
> happen if we had been using it . . .

If you did use the sustain pedal, the note-off messages would have been
irrelevant, and so my algorithm that only considers note-ons would have
been the correct one.

Graham

--- In metatuning@y..., graham@m... wrote:
> paulerlich wrote:
>
> > really, graham? i guess we have different records! and the music
we
> > were making didn't even use the sustain pedal -- i wonder what
would
> > happen if we had been using it . . .
>
> If you did use the sustain pedal, the note-off messages would have
been
> irrelevant,

why is that? surely 'using the sustain pedal' entails both
*depressing* and *releasing* the pedal at various times . . .