[gmpi] Re: Reqs 3.8 Events - ramped events
- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:00:19 +0000
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:09:32 +0100, Koen Tanghe wrote:
> I think I should raise my voice saying that the things that are represented
> by MIDI controllers are usally NOT truly, madly, deeply and (certainly not)
> naturally integer. Some are, but most are not: amount of expression, volume,
> effects level, balance, pan position, etc... are NOT integer entities by
> nature. Hence, I would also not want to model them as integers.
> I will agree that even real values represented in a computer are discrete,
> but please let's not model real values by integers from the start... If
> people want to use these values in a MIDI protocol communication, they will
> have to quantize them. But only then, not within GMPI.
> Just my opinion though...
Yes, my thoughts exactly, thanks for putting it so clearly.
Clearly in many system MIDI data external to GMPI graphs will have to be
7bit integers and so on, but theres no reason to inherit those
limitations.
- Steve
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