Re: [LAD] "bleeding edge html5" has interesting Audio APIs

From: David Robillard <d@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 22 2011 - 01:33:38 EET

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 22:57 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:42:31PM +0100, Nick Copeland wrote:
> >
> > > Subject: Re: [LAD] "bleeding edge html5" has interesting Audio APIs
> > > From: d@email-addr-hidden
> > >
> > > All we need is a couple of sliders and knobs and such. It's quite straight
> > > forward
> >
> > Ah, is that all we need? I never realised it was so simple. Can I have them
> > in some dull, boring grey colour with sad square boxes? You know, something
> > that really inspires and that will convince every iPad user that their ubercool
> > GUI are a total waste of time. Can you do that for me? That would be a killer!
>
> Even almost every GUI toolkit sliders fails when used for
> anything serious in audio. Try tuning your oscillators in
> e.g. AMS when the auto-resizing frequency slider happens to
> have 27.142857 steps per octave.

For stuff like this you need a way to enter precise values with a
corresponding text box anyway.

Though the old fan slider idea was a pretty good one...

-dr

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