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

Ryan Supak ryansupak at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 06:02:47 CET 2006


I think I answered my own question -- I'm sure there are other ways to go
about it but an array, 128 items with a range of 0-127, will work quite
nicely for remapping to the appropriate curve.

Thanks
rs

On 2/20/06, Ryan Supak <ryansupak at gmail.com> 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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