Re: [LAD] CV data protocol in apps.

On 19 Feb 2010, at 18:37, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> On 02/19/2010 05:40 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Simon Jenkins
>> <sjenkins@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>> I'm reading "CV input" as "invitation to modulate" and, yes,
>>> sometimes it makes no sense to modulate at the full audio rate, but
>>> sometimes it does. I'm just not sure a special and predetermined
>>> 1/16th or whatever control rate is worth the effort (and might even
>>> be a performance hit in some cases) for the reasons I described
>>> when I entered this thread.
>>
>> my feeling precisely. the storage issue is an interesting one, but
>> not clearly an imperative. i do think that a general purpose event
>> data type would be useful.
>
> goes to show that you shouldn't call automation data "CV", because it
> gives people the wrong ideas (hell, even my mailer is getting confused
> and thinks i should be attaching a file :-D)
>
> there are synths, and there is parameter automation. using the latter
> for amplitude modulation in the 20-20k band is just not a very good
> idea, and should not influence a design discussion...

This discussion is *about* using CV as automation data though. Does CV turn into automation data when you downsample it?

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Received on Sat Feb 20 00:15:03 2010