[PD] Linear Taper to Log Taper? or Something?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

If you are using sliders, then you can set them to "log" scale from  
linear scale by right-clicking and selecting Properties.  "audio  
taper" is a logarithmic scale, so "log" would be appropriate.

.hc

On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Ryan Supak wrote:

> Hi PeeDee list,
>
> I use PD as a MIDI "translator" into the popular Ableton Live.  I'm  
> trying to make it to where a single knob controls wet/dry mix for a  
> given track.  I was hoping it would be a fairly trivial matter of  
> making a single CC input into two with PD, and assigning each of  
> the two CCs to a knob (one inverted), and being done with it.
>
> However, the problem is that Ableton's knobs use "audio taper",  
> such that the change in decibels per cc amount is much larger at  
> the bottom than at the top.  The result of this -- is that at "50  
> wet/50 dry", the sound is attenuated quite a lot.  Really, though,  
> the sound amplitude should not change across the wet/dry span.
>
> I'm guessing one solution is to alter the 0-127 range of the CC  
> controls within PD -- maybe map them along a different curve.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts!
> rs
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