On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:01:22 pm Fons Adriaensen did opine: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:33:43PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 09:15:32 pm Fons Adriaensen did opine: > > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:17:40AM +0100, Stefano D'Angelo wrote: > > > > Does point #1 mean we basically may want visualization that > > > > expresses only a few properties of a certain waveform? > > > > > > Yes. Waveforms displays are completely useless for normal > > > audio engineering. You may need them for technical purposes, > > > when doing maintenance or testing. But there it ends. > > > > I beg to disagree with the premise that the waveform is useless. > > Please read again what I wrote above. All the examples you mention > (and I agree with what you write about those) fall in the category > 'technical purposes, when doing maintanance and testing'. > Plus they are about testing and measuring analog equipment, while > the context of this thread is about the GUI for audio plugins. > > Yes a good scope is an essential instrument when developing and > testing equipment that is analog or has some analog parts, e.g. > AD and DA converters. But it is useless for an engineer making a > recording or doing a mix. > Some of the best sounding commercials we ever did, were done during a time when our production guru started asking if he could watch the levels on a scope so I rigged one on the output of the production audio board. Then he got the itch to goto Alaska & no one else seemed to care, despite my stated willingness to teach them. Now, we are all digital, and the levels are all over the map. Sucks.
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