On 10 Sep 2005 at 16:42, Ken Durling wrote: > At 04:30 PM 9/10/2005, you wrote: > >To me that's just meaningless. I don't know what "80% left" means. It > >just doesn't mean *anything* to me at all. 80% of *what*? What is the > >whole that you're representing as a fraction? > > Wouldn't the "whole" be the 90° from Center to > either full (180°) L or R? So, in this example > 80% left would be 72° to the Left of Center?
Well, sure, I can figure it out, but it has nothing to do with music. Neither do MIDI numbers, but why do we need yet another level of abstraction? Secondly, it seems weird to me to make the whole be half the field of hearing in the first place. Third, 80% means "3/4s of the way from one point to another" but is expressed as if it's a quantity. What you are indicating is a position on a number line. All you need for that is to know the scale, the zero point and the value of the number for a particular position. But, let me repeat: I have no objection to adding this into Finale as an alternate method of representing pan settings. I don't even care if it's the default, as long as I can still use the conventional numbers (I wouldn't even object if they eliminated 0-127 in favor of -63 to +64). But I don't think it's going to be implemented in any way that's not inconsistent in the various locations where pan can be set. -- 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
