2009/6/15 David Robillard <[email protected]>: > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 23:44 +0200, Stefano D'Angelo wrote: >> 2009/6/13 Jörn Nettingsmeier <[email protected]>: > [...] >> > sorry if this has been discussed before, but i didn't find anything in >> > the archives... >> > consider the case of periodic control values of LADSPA plugins, for >> > instance the azimuth in a horizontal panner or the phase shift in a phaser. >> > currently, they are usually marked as BOUNDED_BELOW and BOUNDED_ABOVE, >> > but the host has no way of knowing that the upper bound is next to the >> > lower bound, so that it can chose the shortest path to the next value >> > when interpolating automation control points. > [...] >> * An LV2 extension would allow you to do that quite easily in LV2, >> which is probably preferable these days. > > Maybe belongs in the units extension?
I don't think so: periodicity and units are quite different things. For example: an angle could be used also to indicate direction (-180° != 180°) or distance in space (0° != 360°), while integers for example could be cyclic (rhythms, tones/semitones/harmony, musical cycles, etc.)... Stefano _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
