Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP status : incomplete draft
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 19:31:18 EET
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:49:01PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> I don't get it. If you're supposed to place the scale converter
> *first*, then how are you supposed to be able to apply anything like
> traditional music theory, rather than pure, continous pitch based
> theory? You will have to know the *exact* temperament of the scale
> (to decode the input, and to generate output in the same scale), even
> if you're only worried about notes.
That holds true for per-note descriptions too. The only way you can
improve in it is with *extensive* scale metadata. Which we dont have and
dont plan to have.
- Steve
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