On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:17:49 +0000 Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > > There was a suggestion on ardour-dev that a hint to say whether > > > control outs were supposed to be informative or a source of > > > control data might help, but I'm not sure about it. > > > > Not sure what 'informative' means here... what information do we get > > if we ignore the control data on the output? > > For example the distinction between the control output of an envelope > follower and the gain reduction output of a compressor, the follower > is inteded to drive eg. a filters cutoff, wheres the gain reduction is > just inteded to be viewed by the user as a clue as to what is going > on. Ah, I get it now. I'm not sure about it either - a user might want to connect the gain reduction to another plugin's input for whatever reason, or conversely, connect a 'data' port to a viewer - e.g. an audio out to an FFT scope. If the hint doesn't prevent this, I have no argument against having it. > > /* Hint RANDOMISABLE indicates that it's meaningful to randomise the > > port > > if the user hits a button. This is useful for the steps of > > control sequencers, reverbs, and just about anything that's > > complex. A control with this hint should not result in anything > > too suprising happening to the user (eg. sudden +100dB gain would > > be unpleasant). */ > > #define LADSPA_HINT_RANDOMISABLE 0x80 > > 'meaningful' is probably the wrong word, how about 'useful'? Agreed. > The last sentance doesn't make sense, it should start "Randomising a > control"... I think. Yeah. That's just my stream-of-consciousness rambling coming in :) s/"A control with this hint"/"Randomising a control"/ > Also, UK v's US spelling, is there a convention in the rest of the .h > file? The word 'initialisation' appears in the comment at the top of the current header, so UK I suppose... - Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
