On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:21:58 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > On Thursday 19 December 2002 21.38, Steve Harris wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:01:57 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > > > What frequency does PITCH 0.0 correspond to? > > > > > > I assume this should be a fixed value, as "system finetune" can > > > be implemented in other ways. No need to have all synths keep > > > track of yet another parameter to convert PITCH into whatever > > > they need. > > > > I think that is actually a good way of implementing global tuning. > > Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well, but I don't quite like the > extra "+ global_tuning" whenever you're doing pitch->frequency > conversion... Especially since you might as well have a "TUNING" > control on sequencers, scale converters or whatever you're using.
Yeah, I guess it would be ok to have it as a control. > > Modular synth style modules generally ignore the global tuning > > anyway. They have there own 0.0v -> Hz mapping, set via a dial. > > Well, we don't need to deliberately disconnect some kinds of plugins > from global tuning, do we? ;-) Well, no, thats why I said 'ignore'. - Steve
