12 Dec
2002
12 Dec
'02
8:51 a.m.
On Thursday 12 December 2002 13.26, Steve Harris wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:31:52 +0100, David Olofson
wrote:
I dont think thats true, all ET scales can be arpegiated trivially
from the octave number,
Yes, but where do you get the octave number...?
A synth
could still have a built in event
processor, but it should only process linear_pitch events.
Yes - but you could not implement a useful arpeggiator that way,
for example. It would do the wrong thing as soon as you're not
using 12tET anymore - and *now*, users wouldn't have clue as to
why this happens, because the synth *lies* and says that it cares
only about linear_pitch... and arpegiate for non ET scales is a hard
problem anyway, providing note numbers doesn't help.
Yes it does, since you need to deal *only* with the note number. The
scale converter then generates the correct pitch for the notes in the
scale that you reference. That's the whole point with using
note_pitch and scale converters at all.
Obviously, this is *exactly* why you should not take note_input to a
synth, and why arpeggiators should be separate plugins. Put a
suitable scale converter *in between*, and "weird" scales are trivial
to handle.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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