On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:57:43 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > :somePort lv2:unit unit:octavePitch ; > > lv2:baseFreq 264.0 . > > > > It's not beyond the realms of the possible to describe the mathematical > > relationship between the octave pitch unit and Hz, but it's probably > > excessive. > > A well-designed set of tags like the ones you show above would > probably solve 99.9% of all cases. But you can't expect anyone > to dream that up in a day. Which leads me to my main gripe with > LV2: it was defined much too fast. In a normal RFC process, you > present the problem, give interested parties at least a month > to consider it and write something that exceeds the quality of > a whim, and then take at least as much time to study the results > and comment on them before anything is decided.
I hope you dont have that impression, LV2 is not finalised, I tried to make sure I had "draft" and "provisional" in the text, but I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear, it is very much still up for discussion. My feeling is that it is somewhere around the Last Call stage in W3C speak. l-a-d fortunatly not having a formal standards process ;) Also, the units stuff I alluded to obove is not, and will not be part of the LV2 1.0 spec, it will come soon after and live as an extension. My plan was to crib from the scientific communities work on representing unit values in RDF, write an early draft and post it here. It is somewhat orthogonal to LV2 itsself, so if someone else with more time feels motivated to work on it, please do. The situation with LV2 is that I have ported most of my LADSPA plugins (to verify there were no blatant problems) to a version of the draft, and we now have 2-3 partial host implementations of the current draft. That doesn't cover the requirements of reference implementations to my satisfaction. So, just to be clear, nothing has been decided. The purpose of the website it to encourage discussion. - Steve
