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Status 90 for Note Off??
« on: Apr 26th, 2019, 10:14am »
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Hi,
 
I'm monitoring input from a keyboard and seeing this:
Code:
TIMESTAMP IN PORT STATUS DATA1 DATA2 CHAN NOTE EVENT      
 00000BCC   1  --     90    4F    4F    1  G  5 Note On      
 00000C54   1  --     90    4F    00    1  G  5 Note Off    
 0003BC03   1  --     90    4D    4F    1  F  5 Note On      
 0003BCD6   1  --     90    4D    00    1  F  5 Note Off        

 
Shouldn't the Note Offs have a status code of 80?
 
This is from an M-Audio Axiom 25 keyboard, a Hosa USM-422 Version 2.1 MIDI-USB cable, and MIDI-OX version 7.0.2.372 on Windows 10.
 
Any ideas what's going on?
 
Thank you,
   Bob
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Re: Status 90 for Note Off??
« Reply #1 on: Apr 27th, 2019, 3:36pm »
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A Note ON with 0 velocity is an accepted substitute for a Note OFF command (status 80).  You'll find some manufacturers do it one way, some do it the other way.
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Re: Status 90 for Note Off??
« Reply #2 on: Apr 27th, 2019, 3:51pm »
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Ah! I hadn't even noticed the zero velocity (not that it would've meant anything to me if I had).
 
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Re: Status 90 for Note Off??
« Reply #3 on: Apr 27th, 2019, 7:39pm »
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It has always complicated MIDI command handling, because any computer code that handles Note ON and Note OFF, must be prepared to deal with both and/or either situation.  
 
In practice, it has caused untold confusion and bugs in MIDI handling code.  I think it was a big mistake to allow it in the first place.
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Re: Status 90 for Note Off??
« Reply #4 on: Apr 28th, 2019, 12:00pm »
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Excerpt from Prophet-600 Synthesizer Operation Manual, Sequential Circuits Inc. , December 1982  
 
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