The gates all go down on the tick the tracks end, but a gate down is a
note RELEASED and not a note stopped: the oboe and the strings have a
release left to run. Rendered and measured, the tail dies eight tenths of
a second after the last event, and the ring was eight ticks - one second,
which sounds like enough and was two tenths short.
A program that exits with sound still in the air leaves nothing able to
end it: the program is gone and cannot drop a gate. What that becomes
depends on the front end. Behind a window the tail finishes on its own.
On a terminal it does not, because emulated time stops while the machine
blocks on a key - measured, and the reason the leftover sound came out a
snippet per keystroke rather than fading.
Twelve ticks, which is a second and a half and covers the measured tail
with room over. It is a number about THESE FOUR INSTRUMENTS: a patch with
a longer release would want more, and the general answer is for the
system to quieten the device when a program stops, the way it puts the
screen back. That is not built and is worth deciding on rather than
guessing at.
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