12 Aug
2011
12 Aug
'11
5:59 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt
<mista.tapas(a)gmx.net> wrote:
On 08/12/2011 09:39 AM, Phil Hézaine wrote:
Dijkstra Considered Harmful
My hardware MIDI controller doesn't have a channel 0, but it goes up to 16!
Admit it: you never start counting from 0 in real life, only when
dealing with computers. Nobody cares what bits go out on the wire...
May be a consensus about the numbering of
channels would be wise at
least for Jack applications.
Either Channel 0 = Channel 1
or Channel 1 = Channel 1 (like in JACK Keyboard. I used it for testing)
But it's an old story and all musicians are used to use this gymnastics.
Thanks again for this promising free software.
I'm a computer scientist, so of course I start counting at 0 :D There's no doubt
about it.. If someone else does it differently they are dead wrong ;D And by implication
this means that I'm right. Ah, feels good to be right..
This is what Dijkstra has to say about it:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html