Re: MIDI keyboard

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:00:01 +0200
Johan Vromans <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > here is your problem. You are hoping that the timing of your
> > keypress could be interpreted and a duration of note estimated from
> > it. Such systems have been tried many times, and are offered by
> > programs that don't care if you succeed or not, as long as you buy
> > the program. They don't work because of the subtleties of timing,
> > rests and notation (consider, 1/4 note tied to 1/8 note is the same
> > duration as dotted 1/4 note).
> 
> Rumor does this, to some extent.

It is in that "some extent" that the problem lies. Fixing wrong entry
is tedious and time consuming. You could have played the entire piece
in by the time you have set about looking for mistakes in the
"automatic" entry systems. That is why these systems (which all the
commercial programs offer) are not used by the users of those programs.
The commercial program vendors don't care, they have the sale by the
time people abandon it.

Richard