Re: [sc-dev] Event's sustain

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxx>]

On December 1, 2014 10:21:12 AM James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxx> wrote:

> At Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:34:20 +0100,
> yota morimoto wrote:
> > But I was talking legato's relation to tempo and not faster rhythm in 
> terms of subdivision.
>
> At risk of flogging the proverbial dead horse... tempo is largely 
> irrelevant here. The only thing that is relevant is the relationship 
> between the "inter-onset interval" between notes (in Events, the \delta 
> time converted into seconds, i.e. ~delta / thisThread.clock.tempo) and the 
> envelope's attack and release phases. Tempo only *seems* to be relevant 
> because it changes the inter-onset interval in seconds, but it isn't the 
> only thing that changes the inter-onset interval. So, a "fix" for the issue 
> that involves only the clock's tempo is not a valid fix.

To be really accurate, the number of seconds of overlap is:

releaseTime - ((delta - sustain) / thisThread.clock.tempo)

If this number is > 0, notes will overlap. Your initial example with tempo 
= 3 beats/sec had overlaps because 0.3 - ((1 - 0.5) / 3) = 0.14-something, 
but no overlaps at tempo = 1 because the formula gives -0.2 seconds of 
overlap in that case. That test by itself seems to point to tempo, but it 
ignores other factors that are no less important.

hjh

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