Re: status of ams

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On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 14:59 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> The place of AMS has largely been taken by Om, and a integration of
> the best of AMS into Om would IMHO be a interesting development. 
> Unfortunately Om does not really support the logarithmic 'control
> voltage' concept that is at the heart of AMS and of the analog synths
> it was designed to emulate. The reason being AFAICS that Om's author
> seems to dislike it and prefers linear controls - we had some heated
> exchanges about this. Mixing both paradigms into a single program
> *could* indeed confuse some users, but that is a IMHO a matter of
> documentation and education. 

Is there really any need for explicit support for logarithmic control in
the engine itself? All ugens in Om/Ingen except for a very small number
that interface with the audio and MIDI ins and outs are LADSPA (or
similar) plugins, it's not as if you can't connect a logarithmic output
port of one plugin to a logarithmic input port of another.

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