Note easy to override Synthesiser::noteOff when the parameter "isKeyDown" of the voices is private

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Hi there,

i’d like to know how to correctly override the Synthesizer::noteOff (which is virtual) in “MySynthesiser” inherited in which i use “MyVoice” inherited class. The fact that in the SynthesizerVoice class the parameter “keyIsDown” is a private bool it doesn’t let me use it from the inherited class “MyVoice”.

Here the noteOff code of Synthesizer :

void Synthesiser::noteOff (const int midiChannel,
const int midiNoteNumber,
const float velocity,
const bool allowTailOff)
{
const ScopedLock sl (lock);

for (int i = voices.size(); --i >= 0;)
{
    SynthesiserVoice* const voice = voices.getUnchecked (i);

    if (voice->getCurrentlyPlayingNote() == midiNoteNumber
          && voice->isPlayingChannel (midiChannel))
    {
        if (SynthesiserSound* const sound = voice->getCurrentlyPlayingSound())
        {
            if (sound->appliesToNote (midiNoteNumber)
                 && sound->appliesToChannel (midiChannel))
            {
                jassert (! voice->keyIsDown || voice->sustainPedalDown == sustainPedalsDown [midiChannel]);

                voice->keyIsDown = false;

                if (! (voice->sustainPedalDown || voice->sostenutoPedalDown))
                    stopVoice (voice, velocity, allowTailOff);
            }
        }
    }
}

}

Has someone encountered the same issue?
I add for information that “MySynthesizer” and “MyVoice” are in different files in order to get a better readability (as well as matching with cpp standard of getting a file per class)

Thank you for your help

2

im not encouraging you, but for the same reason i made it public and copied modules to project folder. as well could not help myself vanilla way.

3

Thanks for your answer, it is a bit sad that a simple setter is not implemented, as it is essential to override this function, and that we need to make a custom JUCE version…

4

@JUCE Team
Could you change that? We’re also in trouble with this!

5

Sorry, I’m confused about what you’re asking for… The OP is asking for a public version of isKeyDown, which is already there:

https://www.juce.com/doc/classSynthesiserVoice#ae0f9adb8d02f26099dea4467fd6fc170

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It’s not about the getter - it’s about the setter.
To completely replace the “void Synthesiser::noteOff()” with an own version, we would have to be able to set keyIsDown (which is private and has no setter). For now, we call Synthesiser::noteOff() from our virtual noteOff method to get this done. This works somehow, but it would be much more convenient to be able to control it all from the virtual method.

7

FYI I’ve added a setKeyDown method now

8

Thanks a lot !

9

Cool! Thank you :slight_smile: