On 09 Sep 2005, at 5:42 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
No, percentages are *not* the right way to do it.
Percentages are the *standard* way to do it. All major digital audio applications use percentages. Moreover, the Kontakt Player users percentages for pan, which means Finale is not even internally consistent.
The sequencer I use (a shitty one that came with my sound card) use MIDI numbers centered on 64 as the center, so it runs from -64 to +64.
That would be a little better, but base 100 is still easier and more intuitive than base 64.
Well, don't blame that on Finale -- blame it on the people who designed the MIDI spec, since that's the way it works.
There is no reason to force the user to use the raw MIDI numbers. Finale can easily convert a percentage to a MIDI controller number. (This is what the Kontakt Player does.)
Percentages are massively worse, as the percentage would be a signed percentage of, er, um, what? Rightness? 25% right? -33% right? It's transparently nonsensical.
You are the only person I have *ever* heard express *any* puzzlement about what "50% right" or "75% left" means. This is the standard way of referring to panning locations, both on a physical mixing board and in professional digital audio applications.
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