On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:26:01 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > You're missing that I'm not talking about 1.0/octave, linear pitch, > but <something>/note, *note* pitch. That means <something>/note > should *always* apply, and that <something> should be constant. > Changing it is totally pointless, since you'd still have note pitch. > > Changing the "size" of one note is about as silly as changing the > "size" of one octave; that's my whole point. (1/12)/note for note > pitch *is* just as silly as 12.0/octave for linear pitch.
Well, only if you regard a note as a first class object (I dont). (1/12)/note makes more sense because theres /is/ someting very 12ey about 12tET notes (the clues in the name ;), whereas there is nothing 12ey about octaves. At all. > Some plugins think in 1.0/note, and others in 1.0/octave. If you want > to connect them, you'll need "something" that expresses 1.0/note as > 1.0/octave according to your scale of choice. Just as if you were > going to connect a MIDI controller to a CV synth. Just for the record I do think that having a note representation in the API is wrong, but I'm letting it slide. I guess I'l never write any code to support it anyway. - Steve
