[PD] Synths! (Please Read)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 29, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> carmen wrote:
>
>>>> accepting data in the range of 0-1 (not 0-127!  undo the MIDI   
>>>> revolution!).
>>>>
>>> Except for note and velocity values, because especially for  
>>> synths it
>>> makes a lot of sense to follow the midi revolution there, if just to
>>> be able to play it with a midi keyboard without having to rescale  
>>> and
>>>
>>
>> the 127 is probably going to be rescaled back to 0-1 or something  
>> anyway, id rather do this on input, than much more often in some  
>> synthesis code..
>>
>>
>>> for frequencies 0-1 doesn't make any sense anyway.
>>>
>>
>> sure it does..multiply by samplerate and divide by two..!
>>
>>
> Then you get different frequencies for different sample rates,  
> which is not usually what you want.

Yeah, that would defeat the purpose.  With frequency, 0-1 does not  
make sense.  But a standard does.  Like all synth objects using  
frequency in hertz, rather than MIDI note #s, or whatever else  
someone might think of.

.hc


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