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Well - for one thing there is the pedal is not itself binary but in degrees - and there are three pedals, one of which if you depress, will silence only some o
by cevn 5y ago
Well - for one thing there is the pedal is not itself binary but in degrees - and there are three pedals, one of which if you depress, will silence only some of the strings. I don't think MIDI itself is capable I guess, some other format might be. There are a lot of factors, and pianos sound different from each other, I think that would be lost.
- crazygringo 5y agoMIDI is definitely capable -- code 64 is used for sustain pedal, and code 67 for soft pedal. And it's associated with a byte value for how far the pedal is depressed. The third (middle) pedal in pianos is nonstandard -- i.e. used for different effects on different pianos, whether sostenuto or bass damper or practice mute. In actual performance the only time it's ever really used (and rarely at that) is as sostenuto, since that's what it does on grand pianos like Steinways, but its effect is indistinguishable from simply holding notes for longer durations, so MIDI can simply represent its effect that way. (Unlike the sustain pedal which increases resonances in a big way and needs to be represented independently, or soft pedal which changes timbre as well as volume.)