Re: [sdiy] MIDI isn

[jhaible at debitel.net]

Ian Fritz <ijfritz at earthlink.net> schrieb: 
> >
> >I will back up Don here.
> >
> >He talked about playing a Hammond - now how will you transfer the
> >phrasing of a Hammond (with several contacts per key) over Midi,
> >which only knows velocity and release velocity, assuming a linear
> >interpolation between the action of just two key contacts ?
> 
> 
> Sorry, but I disagree. MIDI is certainly *not* limited to the common, 
> simple note-on note-off messages that we usually see.  For example, 
> Information for several contacts per key could easily be sent over MIDI 
> using the "General Purpose Controllers" CC# 10-13 and CC# 50-53. 

Yes, but how much *time* will this take ? It's not just 9 messages instead
of one (pretty much already). The fastest you can get is sending the
9 events without a gap between them (probably way too slow already),
but then you haven't gained anything over a linear interpolation
(equidistant closing of the 9 contacts) yet.

JH.