Fwd: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: Pitch control

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Dec 11 15:56:01 UTC 2002


On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:49:17 +0000, Nathaniel Virgo wrote:
> Sorry, I just tend to hit "reply to all" because some lists seem to be set up 
> so that "reply" doesn't go to the list.

See if your mail client has a reply-to-list deature, mutt does
(<shift>+L).
 
> > I like the idea of enforced "explicit casting", but I think it's
> > rather restrictive not to allow synths to take note_pitch. That would
> > make it impossible to have synths with integrated event processors
> > (including scale converters; although *that* might actually be a good
> > idea)
> 
> That would be bad.  If a synth takes note_pitch it's bound to interpret it as 
> 12tET, which would be annoying to someone trying to use a different scale.  A 
> synth could still have a built in event processor, but it should only process 
> linear_pitch events.  Scale converters should definately not be built into 
> synths.

Agreed.

- Steve 



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