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> > If the user sends a 20khz sine wave into an application's<br>> > "volume" port that's either their mistake, or its exactly<br>> > what they wanted to do.<br>> <br>> If that is what they want to do they should use the right<br>> tool, wich would be ring modulator in a synth. I'd expect<br>> synths to use audio rate controls at least for some units,<br>> even if in almost all cases 1/16 would be enough.<br>> <br>> If a 'normal' audio app with a volume control (e.g. a mixer)<br>> would actually accept a 20kHz sine wave as a control signal<br>> then I'd consider it to be of extremely low quality and bad<br>> design. The same app would happily add any noise present on<br>> its controls to its signals and I wouldn't trust it for any<br>> serious work. It's sort the software equivalent of using<br>> cheap low-quality analog faders.<br><br>Why is this a bad design or even low quality? Long before FM <br>synthesis was born Moog allowed this to be done and a whole<br>industry grew out of the result - he could modulate his oscillators<br>frequency from his oscillators frequencies - who cares if this is freq<br>or gain. It is very short sighted to suggest that because you think <br>something should not be done then it is thus a bad thing.<br><br>Look at the ARP 2600, it allowed just this to be experimented with.<br>Look at the Korg MS-20, look at a load of synths. Then take your<br>clappers off and consider what might come out of a mixer that <br>allowed you to do the same.<br><br>The 1/16 as suitable for synths is also ludicrous. There are a few<br>heads out there arguing that with the correct algorithms there is<br>no real reason that analogue should sound so much better than<br>digital. OK, it does now, probably because some people keep on <br>arguing that quantisation of parameters 'would be enough' as they<br>cannot be hacked to have their code to the necessary legwork.<br><br>BTW, why is a mixer a 'normal' audio app? If it is functioning on a<br>computer then isn't it mixing other audio apps, even if they are<br>just capture processes? Are they then not 'normal' or is that just<br>the way you see them?<br><br>Fons, does your convolution algorithm cut corners? I doubt it as<br>it is recognised generally as an amazing peice of work. Why do <br>you then think that cutting corners elsewhere is acceptable?<br><br>Regards, nick<br><br> <br /><hr />Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. <a href='https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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