[linux-audio-dev] XAP status : incomplete draft

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Dec 15 12:37:00 UTC 2002


On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:49:01PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> I don't get it. If you're supposed to place the scale converter 
> *first*, then how are you supposed to be able to apply anything like 
> traditional music theory, rather than pure, continous pitch based 
> theory? You will have to know the *exact* temperament of the scale 
> (to decode the input, and to generate output in the same scale), even 
> if you're only worried about notes.

That holds true for per-note descriptions too. The only way you can
improve in it is with *extensive* scale metadata. Which we dont have and
dont plan to have.

- Steve



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