Re: [sc-dev] Event's sustain

[yota morimoto <yotamorimoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Julian,

> The reason is that the Synth doesn't know of the clock you are playing the pattern on. The tempo may even change while the note is playing.
That's true.

> the event key ~legato only works with tempo changes as you expect if you use gated envelopes.
Yes, Stephan's example does work the way I expect.
So I should use gated synth while leaving the ambiguous meaning of ~legato for non-gated synth.

Thanks for the clarification!

best,
yota

On Nov 30, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Julian Rohrhuber <julian.rohrhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On 30.11.2014, at 12:40, yota morimoto <yotamorimoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks James.
>> 
>> Then ~legato is a confusing term here. It is not the musical legato at least.
>> I'd understand ~legato < 1 as the degree of non-legato-ness expressed independently of tempo.
>> 
>> But the meaning in supercollider can be completely the opposite.
>> So I need to accept that ~legato = 0.5 can both be staccato and legato depending on tempi.
>> 
> 
> the event key ~legato only works with tempo changes as you expect if you use gated envelopes.
> 
> The reason is that the Synth doesn't know of the clock you are playing the pattern on. The tempo may even change while the note is playing.
> 
> The example that Stephan posted earlier does behave as you want it, or at least it should - try it again.
> 
> 
>> Indeed, ~sustain is low-level but ~legato is more high-level.
> 
> In SC, ~sustain and ~legator are almost on the same level. There are many musical and mathematical concepts that shift meaning dependent on context and that have a specific meaning in supercollider which may deviate from what you expect.
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