Re: Support articulations, slurs and breaths in MIDI (issue 26470047)

[David Kastrup]

Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:

> [Uh oh, here comes the urge to rant about pianists arranging cello
> parts.  Must... resist...]
>
> As a string player, I wonder if it would be difficult to call out to a
> scheme function which receives two chords and returns the overlap,
> which can be negative to indicate that the transition must have a gap
> rather than an overlap.  I imagine that other instruments also have
> their own limitations when it comes to slurring.

I would expect that physical limitations of the execution of a
particular instrument would be the task of the MIDI expander, with the
MIDI signal being mostly instrument-independent (apart from preselecting
a particular instrument).

-- 
David Kastrup