13 Dec
2002
13 Dec
'02
3:43 p.m.
On Friday 13 December 2002 7:05 pm, David Olofson wrote:
The note_pitch thing isn't just about sanity checks, though, it's a
completely different representation of the same thing.
On Friday 13 December 2002 19.01, Steve Harris wrote:
...but what's been said recently about note_pitch and scales means that you
have to just "guess" what scale you're in anyway. Solution: have a hint on
the input that says it's expecting (1/12)/note. That way it does make sense
to cast between them. Simple.
But it duplicates pitch. If you dont allow
note_pitch then you dont
miss out on anything, all the plugins that would be possible still
are, it just makes a small number of specialised actions *slightly*
harder.
Well, if it's ok to just *guess* which plugins expect you to
interpret their pitch inputs and/or outputs as (1/12)/note rather
than 1.0/octave, then fine - that factor 12.0 is all the complexity
there is to it. Is it obvious that you must put any "traditional
theory based"
plugins *before* the scale converter, if you're not doing 12tET?
It is to me. I think you have to understand that anyway in the other system.
At least in this case only the people who actually want to use scale
converters have to understand them.
I haven't
seen any convincing argument that it isn't redundant and
likly to cause problems.
If the ability for the host to perform basic sanity checking on
connections is completely irrelevant, then this feature is indeed
redundant. I haven't seen any proof that it will cause
problems, though.
You can't prove a negative. I think that it's possible for it to cause quite
big problems, which is why I'm still harping on about it.