14 Nov
2007
14 Nov
'07
9:13 a.m.
On 14 Nov 2007, at 13:00, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
Lars Luthman wrote:
Good idea - I'll add that to me ever-growing TODO list :-/
The mian idea was to allow hosts to provided dedicated input widgets
for eg. dB, but it was also intended to allow hosts to do automatic
conversion between plugins - eg. two different delays that measure
time in ms or s. Though maybe that's a bit farfetched.
- Steve
There is a Units extension that can be used to
define units for ports
(linked from the spec page, I think) and the core spec has
scalePoints,
which allows plugins to define labeled port values (e.g. "0 dB" for
the
multiplier value 1.0 on a simple gain plugin).
The extension looks very good, but I would recommend adding two
important units - semitone and cent (in case anyone doesn't know, a
cent
= 1/100 of a semitone). Semitones - useful for osc transpose in
synths,
as well as shift amount in pitch shift modules. Cents - useful for
relative detune in synths. I think those are much more common than,
say,
miles :)