[nama] Re: Should track caching cache/uncache fades, too?

  • From: "S. Massy" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:46:57 -0400

On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 12:31:47PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi Fading Namites!
> 
> If so, effect chains will need to accommodate fades.
> 
> It would certainly be easier to do the opposite:
> to *disable* fades during caching, and re-enable
> them afterwards.
> 
> It's not necessary to cache fades in terms of CPU, as 
> envelopes aren't very expensive.
> 
> One might conceivably want to cache fades for permanence.
> 
> As things stand, if a fade is on a cached track, its
> effect will be duplicated, as the new WAV file will
> already contain the fade.
> 
> I'm leaning towards *not* caching fades.
Don't have much of a strong feeling either way, though my hunch is that
*not* caching fades would be the most intuitive.

Cheers,
S.M.

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