12 Mar
2005
12 Mar
'05
9:44 a.m.
On Sat, 12 Mar, 2005 at 12:56PM +0000, tim hall spake thus:
Well, it might as well stay here for now - we seem to be getting lots
of input and it would be a shame to lose that.
Last Friday 11 March 2005 12:15, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net
was like:
Whatever the soundfont format specifies, that's what we'll be working
in. There's nothing to be done creatively at this point.
Looking closer at the specs (now I have it converted to text for easy
grepping) the pitch correction is in cents - 1/100 of a semitone. So
there's plenty of accuracy there.
Original pitch and pitch correction are more
awkward - numbers for
pitch aren't great. Can we agree on a format for this? Like C-1 for
first octave C, etc.
Pitch correction I think is in semitones - if
not, I think we should
convert it to that and back again so the user can work with a musical
abstraction rather than anything more low level.
Would access to a lower level abstraction be useful to microtonal musicians or
would this be entirely in the realm of getting fluidsynth to deal with scala
files or nasty pitch-bend hacks in MIDI? (which is probably out of scope for
this discussion) Oh, and
I've only just noticed that we're using the LAU list and
probably ought to move either to the LAD list or a separate one
altogether of we're going to keep up this volume - awkward choice
because more eyes means more input, but also more annoyance for
uninterested readers. Thoughts, anyone?
Personally, I'm not on LAD and I'd like to keep track of this discussion, that
said, I'm probably not going to contribute much to the process until you and
the other coders have something that actually needs testing. I can always
check the archives. cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
--
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated
Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)