Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI piano + sustain pedal realism

[Aere Greenway]

On 08/03/2018 07:01 PM, S. wrote:
> The sustain pedal works, but not like a real piano. After hitting some 
> keys, releasing the keys, and then immediately depressing the sustain 
> pedal while there is still residual resonant sound, it does not 
> sustain the resonant sound. At least, it normally doesn't

With a physical piano, when you hit a key, the damper-pad for that note 
raises up, so the string will make the sound of the note, and when you 
release the key, the damper-pad for that note will come down against the 
string, damping (ending) the sound of the note.

I think, if after playing a note, you very quickly pressed the sustain 
pedal (before the note has completely died) the remaining sound of the 
note will then resonate with the strings of other notes, since the 
sustain pedal raises all the damper pads off of the strings for all of 
the notes.

As far as I know, MIDI doesn't work that way.  Any notes that are still 
playing (a note-on, but not yet a note-off) when the sustain pedal is 
pressed, will be sustained (keep playing, even after a note-off for the 
note is received), until you release the sustain pedal.

Hopefully, you are not actually talking about the sostenuto (middle) 
pedal, which does something very different from the sustain-pedal.

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Sincerely,
Aere