Folks,
I am still analyzing a problem I am having with audacity.
This is that need I have to gradually level down a track from its
current volume to -10 or -20 db in a given time and keep the level at
that time.
I have been using the text envelope plugin and that works great, but I
have to manually calculate the iterations and build the pairs of time
and volume every time and this is not productive.
I thought that I can make a ramp plugin that makes exactly the same
thing. This would be beneficial for other blind people specially coming
from editors such as Amadeus Pro which offers this feature.
I therefore started to code the plugin but I have some questions. I do
recognize that this might not be the place to ask, but if we have folks
experienced in writting plugins this might also be of interest for
others here.
If this is not the right place to ask, then can you direct me towards
the right list or forum or anything where I can ask for help?
Here the questions go:
As I am going to do basically the very same thing the text envelope
plugin does but in an automated form, I started to inspect the plugin code.
But I can't find my way around lisp. Because of that I have chosen sal
to use as the plugin development language.
However, I couldn't find a good language reference.
1- The plugin specify two gui fields: the time interval where the
amplify should happen and the amount of db (positive or negative) that
must be applied.
2- The time value is of type float-text ** because I want one to be able
to specify that the amplify should happen in say 2.5 seconds. The value
of the db field is of type int-text, because I do not want to allow one
to amplify by say -5,2 db.
3- Inside the main function I divide the time interval by 10 and also
the amount of amp to apply by 10. The idea is that on each tenth of the
period I will apply cumulatively one tenth of the total amplification,
so that when the period ends the track will be at the desired level.
4- But now the first difficulty comes: the amplify by widget is defined
as type int-text so that the user can not enter a decimal value.
;control amp-factor "Amplify by" int-text "DB" 0 -40 40
but this is causing me problems in the sal code.
set ampSample = (amp-factor / 10)
because amp-factor is defined as int-text, the result of the division by
10 put on
ampSample is also integer. This is not desired because if the user
enters say -5 on the db field the value ending in ampSample is 0 when it
should be -0.5.
I have not found a single page on the internet specifying how to force a
variable to be float.
As soon as I get this part ready I will ask you the second question
related to lists.
Thanks,
Marlon
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