> I am not sure if that would help. Every Keyboarder knows what an LFO is. > These 3 characters are printed on so many synthesizers' panels. A > translation might sound a bit strange or even misleading.
Right. No translation necessary is my thing. Anybody who has ever had any exposure to synths and the Latin alphabet has seen LFO before. I bet even the Japanese guy translates LFO as LFO. I get that the users are confused by what this or that is, but it really seems like we're overthinking things and going to a lot of trouble for translators who have to come up with a way to explain esoteric and complicated things in few words when the whole exercise is really pointless. Don't know what LFO does? Play with it, see what it does, and now you know the LFO thingie is what makes that other thingie happen to the sound, and when that thingie is what you want to hear, this is the thingie to use. Is anybody ever really shopping for a specific effect and thinking, "Dammit man, I've got to figure out a way to oscillate the low frequencies in this sound in order to create cold fusion in beer and bring about world happiness. Where the hell is the control that does this? My god man, I finally found it, damn you Rosegarden, damn you to hell for not printing 'create cold fusion in beer' on this control! You cost me hours! The planet nearly cracked in half while I was trying to figure it out!" Does anybody really understand what the hell the manual is talking about if you even read it? Does anybody except math genius sound processing dweebs actually give a flying rat's ass about the technical details of how the doohickey does the sound thingie? When I play with a synth, I just dick around with knobs until I get something neat to come out. Simple. Easy for translators too. Don't translate a bunch of crap nobody actually understands even if they read it. "Oh, the zion manipulfold of the transverse scrupulon is ejected into the velosphere by the tragsplisms." Great? What the hell does that mean? Let's play with the knobs and try to figure it out. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
