Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic
From: Tim Goetze (tim_AT_quitte.de)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 18:13:26 EET
Steve Harris wrote:
>I would expect most people here are "musicians" to some degree. It'd be a
>pretty wierd thing to obsess about otherwise ;)
indeed. it seems there are few who have built a solid
theoretical foundation though, and that doesn't mean
western music theory only.
>> >I think fp arithmetics have more effect or accuracy than traditional
>> >ways of thinking about meters - but I must be wrong, then.
>>
>> they are simply not adequate in this context.
>
>In what way? Not expressive enough?
not expressive enough for fractions, for one thing.
>I have an aversion to expressing anything like this as an int, for both
>artistic and technical reasons.
for technical reasons, you should prefer int i think.
for artistic reasons, well you can't argue with that.
if you get a chance to, do some experiments with non-integral
organization of musical time. i'm dead certain you'll never
want to go there a second time.
tim
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