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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: Note-Off
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Fred Floberg wrote:

> P.S. My cheap Radio Shack 'Concertmate' keyboard seems to be giving 2
> note-on's rather than a note-on and a note-off for each keypress/release.
> The keypress note-on has an apropriate velocity value, and the release note-on
> has a velocity of 0. Is this a valid (albeit cheesey) way of doing note-off's?
> (This keyboard, at $200 US, is the world's crappiest midi keyboard. So it
> wouldn't surprise me in the least to find that this was a cost cutting measure.)

This is usual MIDI event used in cheap keyboards. My small keyboard does
this thing too. The question is: Should ALSA MIDI driver translate this
event to correct Note-Off or leave it unchanged?

								Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


