Re: Silently depressed keys

[David Kastrup]

Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:

> I’m experimenting with an articulation called \silent that uses a
> large negative midi-extra-velocity property to add a note with minimum
> velocity to the MIDI output.

"minimum velocity" is 0.  Midi implementations use this as an alternate
representation of key release since this leads to shorter Midi messages
and faster transmission than the "proper" key release event.

You need at least 1 to make a distinctive event.

-- 
David Kastrup