Distortion

[sciurius]

MIDI voice 30 is DistortonGuitar. I think the right name is DistortionGuitar  .

[bvdp]

You are 100% correct. I'm not about to change it at this time though, just too many files around with the wrong spelling. Can we agree that it's a MMA quirk

If it really bothers you, add the following line to your initialization file:

  Patch Rename DistortonGuitar=DistortionGuitar

You could also do the same thing with "Patch Set 30=DistortonGuitar" but that will generate a warning.

If anyone has a suggestion for a "better" solution ... do let me know!!! BTW, this bug has been in MMA for about 10 or 15 years I, for one, never type in the names ... I just copy/paste from the HTML docs. Yup, I'm a crappy typist.

[sciurius]

I think it could be as easy as:

In miditables.py, change the name to 'DistortionGuitar' (as it should be).

Add a fix after initializing voiceInx:

   voiceInx['DISTORTONGUITAR'] = voiceInx['DISTORTIONGUITAR'];

Now MMA will recognize DistortonGuitar as an alias for DistortionGuitar, but never show the wrong spelling in Patch List.

Patch attached.

[folderol]

Will this still work if someone enters the wrong spelling?
People get used to things - even wrong things!

[sciurius]

Yes, the patch I added in the previous message allows both spellings to be used.

[bvdp]

Great. I will look at this and implement.

[bvdp]

This patch has been committed. Will show in the next devel release.

It took a bit of work to figure out the documentation generator for this, but "DistortonGuitar" is gone. I've left it in the library files as an interesting historical artifact