11 Dec
2002
11 Dec
'02
11:40 a.m.
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12.10, Steve Harris wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:39:12 +0100, David Olofson
wrote:
They are not parallel. One actually *is* frequency, while the other
expresses pitch in relation to a scale.
It's like comparing inline code with calls through function pointers,
basically.
Anyway, given that a converter plugin instance
can only ever be
called once per buffer, and could potentially handle multiple
channels, I'm sure it will be quite a bit faster than host
callbacks when it actually matters: when you're flooded with
events.
Maybe. My objection to converters is more that they imply two
parallel representations of frequency (in the broad sense of the
word), which seems like a mistake. I still maintain that your average DSP programmer is
capable of
multiplying an octave number by 12 to get a 12tET MIDI note number.
Even a VST programmer ;)
Yes, but that's not the point. And 12tET is essentially irrelevant to
this discussion (now, even *I* say that! ;-) - it just happens to be
what most people use most of the time. (Or is it? I'm thinking that
there may be some rather significant cultures where this is not
true... Unless they're all brainwashed by our 12tET music, we may
eventually be outnumbered!)
I said I was going to stop arguing this point! Oh
well.
*hehe*
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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