[linux-audio-dev] Todays "LADSPA2" update

[Dave Robillard]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 07:05 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:51 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > I've written a first cut at an ontology/schema for the plugin RDF:
> > http://plugin.org.uk/ladspa2/ladspa-2.ttl
> > 
> > The term schema is a bit misleading, as it doesn't really enforce
> > anything, it really just gives you some hints about what to write. The
> > bulk of it is english text to explain the meaning of the bits that are no
> > longer in the .h
> > 
> > I tried to write it as clearly as possible, but the machine readable parts
> > might still be a bit cryptic and there could be errors. Shout if there's
> > any bits that don't make sense.
> 
> i know you didn't want to actually change much of the spec, but i would
> like to protest at the continued inclusion of the "logarithmic" port
> hint. its totally useless. at the very least, the hint should be removed
> and replaced by two other hints: logarithmicE and logarithmic10. saying
> that something might be better viewed using a logarithmic scale really
> says nothing useful. a more satisfactory solution would add "dBFS" to
> indicate that the port contains values indicating volumetric or gain
> levels. something like that.

Ah!  No removing the logarithmic hint! :)

Specifying the base along with it would be a very good idea though.
Better to have a 'logarithmic' hint and a seperate 'log_base' though.

-DR-