On Sep 9, 2005, at 9:13 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Well, the problem is that you've got 180 degrees and 128 MIDI values, so degrees would be more precise than any MIDI value you could produce. Percentages have the same problem, when you use 100% for right and 100% for left, since you end up with 200 degrees of freedom, where the actual MIDI data has only 128.
Yet if the idea is to represent an analogue mixing console, the pan pot has about 330 degrees of revolution available, which is an equally bad representation of what the pan actually does.
And things get even more complicated with surround sound, where you actually DO have 360 degrees of pan available!
The rest of your comments stand unchallenged (by me, anyway) as anything we come up with to represent pan is going to need some understanding of what it does.
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