[LAD] "bleeding edge html5" has interesting Audio APIs

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Mon Nov 21 22:57:57 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:42:31PM +0100, Nick Copeland wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Re: [LAD] "bleeding edge html5" has interesting Audio APIs
> > From: d at drobilla.net
> >
> >  All we need is a couple of sliders and knobs and such.  It's quite straight 
> > forward
> 
> Ah, is that all we need? I never realised it was so simple. Can I have them 
> in some dull, boring grey colour with sad square boxes? You know, something 
> that really inspires and that will convince every iPad user that their ubercool
> GUI are a total waste of time. Can you do that for me? That would be a killer!

Even almost every GUI toolkit sliders fails when used for
anything serious in audio. Try tuning your oscillators in
e.g. AMS when the auto-resizing frequency slider happens to 
have 27.142857 steps per octave. 

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FA

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