On Sat, 12 Mar, 2005 at 12:56PM +0000, tim hall spake thus: > Last Friday 11 March 2005 12:15, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx was like: > > > Original pitch and pitch correction are more awkward - numbers for > > pitch aren't great. Can we agree on a format for this? Like C-1 for > > first octave C, etc. > > > Pitch correction I think is in semitones - if not, I think we should > > convert it to that and back again so the user can work with a musical > > abstraction rather than anything more low level. > > Would access to a lower level abstraction be useful to microtonal musicians or > would this be entirely in the realm of getting fluidsynth to deal with scala > files or nasty pitch-bend hacks in MIDI? (which is probably out of scope for > this discussion) Whatever the soundfont format specifies, that's what we'll be working in. There's nothing to be done creatively at this point. Looking closer at the specs (now I have it converted to text for easy grepping) the pitch correction is in cents - 1/100 of a semitone. So there's plenty of accuracy there. > > Oh, and I've only just noticed that we're using the LAU list and > > probably ought to move either to the LAD list or a separate one > > altogether of we're going to keep up this volume - awkward choice > > because more eyes means more input, but also more annoyance for > > uninterested readers. Thoughts, anyone? > > Personally, I'm not on LAD and I'd like to keep track of this discussion, that > said, I'm probably not going to contribute much to the process until you and > the other coders have something that actually needs testing. I can always > check the archives. Well, it might as well stay here for now - we seem to be getting lots of input and it would be a shame to lose that. > cheers, > > tim hall > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
