[LAD] Terminology problem

Phil Frost indigo at bitglue.com
Wed Nov 14 21:59:01 UTC 2007


On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:49:52PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this is a hard problem, or if I'm just being extra stupid 
> today...
> 
> Assume we have a 2D addressing scheme for addressing Ports on a 
> plugin. A Port here can be a connection that sends or receives a 
> single mono audio stream, control data for a single parameter, or 
> something like that.
> 
> The first dimension is similar to MIDI CCs, or the different types of 
> controls in a mixer strip. The coordinate indicates what kind or 
> group of control/port/whatever we're talking about. Examples: "Master 
> volume control" (probably just one of these) and "channel pitch 
> controls" (one per channel, obviously). On a (normal) studio mixer, 
> we'd be talking about a horizontal row of controls, all of the same 
> kind.
> 
> The second dimension is similar to MIDI channels, synth voices, or 
> mixer channels, depending on context. I'm calling all this "Channel", 
> as that's the least domain specific name I can think of that still 
> makes sense. Basically, when you have multiple indentical internal 
> objects, this is how you address the instances.
> 
> 
> Now, what do I call the first dimension, *before* specifying what 
> channel I'm talking about? How do I address "the Volume CCs of all 16 
> MIDI channels", or "the PFL buttons of all mixer strips?" I'd like a 
> short, logical, non-confusing name for this, but I can't seem to 
> think of one.

Parameter?



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