[sdiy] MIDI isn't musical : Flame bait?

[jhaible]

> >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 ?
>
> That's a job for your synth, not for MIDI. You could take some info from
the
> MIDI velocity to control the timing offsets of the various individual
contacts,
> and mix in a little randomness (belive me there is some randomness in the
> Hammond),

Not that it would be of any importance to me - it was just an example,
but I cannot follow your argument: I spoke about phrasing (and I thought
this was part of Don's topic, too) and you want to replace this with
randomness ?

Either the phrasing makes no difference, or it makes a difference (and
I don't want to decide this, allthough I have an idea that it makes not
much difference in *my* playing, but a lot of difference in a Hammond
virtuouso's playing), but *if* it makes a difference, it surely cannot
be replaced by randomness!

This reminds me of the old quantizing hype: Your drums sound too
mechnical? Your drum machine doesn't sound like Bill Bruford even
though it has a better (gasp!) timing ? Add a little randomness ...

Back to the organ example:
It's even possible to press a key only partly down, and activate only
a part of the key contacts. This is not theoretical, I tried this on
a Farfisa VIP 345. (Sold it, unfortunately). I'm pretty sure that
things like that happen on very short "ghost notes" all the time.
Emulate it with velocity ?? Interpolate between *what*, if you
don't even close the last contact ...

JH.