10 Dec
2002
10 Dec
'02
7:38 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:22:13PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
Sequencers are going to store pitch in the form of floats. The
argument is about whether these should be in 1.0/note or (1/12)/note
format. (And this has nothing to do with scales or notes/octave; it's
<something>/note, period.)
Well, some sequencers will want to work in pure ptich and not care about
notes at all (probably not many, but some).
Sure, but its fewer.
It *does* hurt the 12tET case, at least unless
you're suggesting
that sequencers should always store 1.0/octave...?
I thought sequencers were going to send note numbers? The tone/scale
magic is hardly ever useful though, it it forces
everyone else to work around a factor of 12.
Or forces a few (or so we seem to thing) to work around a factor of
1/12... Either way, this is the situation: We have to pick
*two* out of three
good things:
1. 1.0/octave
2. 1.0/note
3. No conversions for 12tET.
I think I would pick 1 + 2, and accept that conversion is required
whenever you want to drive 1.0/octave from 1.0/note, but you rejected
that.
Did I? That wasn't my intention. I'm happy as long as pitch is 1.0/octave,
if notes are 1.0/note too then thats even better.
The host callback thing was just a suggestion to avoid the use of scale
converters.
- Steve