On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.tapas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/12/2011 09:39 AM, Phil Hézaine wrote: >> May be a consensus about the numbering of channels would be wise at >> least for Jack applications. >> Either Channel 0 = Channel 1 >> or Channel 1 = Channel 1 (like in JACK Keyboard. I used it for testing) >> But it's an old story and all musicians are used to use this gymnastics. >> Thanks again for this promising free software. > > I'm a computer scientist, so of course I start counting at 0 :D There's no doubt about it.. If someone else does it differently they are dead wrong ;D And by implication this means that I'm right. Ah, feels good to be right.. > > This is what Dijkstra has to say about it: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html > Dijkstra Considered Harmful My hardware MIDI controller doesn't have a channel 0, but it goes up to 16! Admit it: you never start counting from 0 in real life, only when dealing with computers. Nobody cares what bits go out on the wire... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
