On 9 Sep 2005 at 18:12, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 05:42 PM 9/9/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Percentages are massively worse, as the percentage would be a signed > >percentage of, er, um, what? Rightness? 25% right? -33% right? > > Yeah. 100% left, 100% right. Sounds good to me. Better'n north by > northwest. :)
Well, that's not what I said, as I was looking at a percentage of a single scale, not of a centered scale. And it seems to me that 50% right would be in the center, but what do I know. > Seriously, I only think in terms of proportional positioning, and have > used percentages for knob settings in my electroacoustic scores long > before there was Midi. Well, it's absolute nonsense to my way of thinking. As I said, the UI of many sequencers strikes me as really weird and counterintuitive. I don't want Finale to copy *bad* UI just because it's used in a lot of programs. But, as I said, if there's an alteration to the way pan is set, I hope the original method of absolute MIDI numbers is left as an option. That way everyone can be happy. I don't care so much about what is chosen as the default so much as that I have a choice to revert to the traditional method when the new method is counterintuitive. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
