Patch (rather for discussion): sonic and samplerate implementation

[Tomas Cerha]

Dne 6.12.2010 20:33, Andrei Kholodnyi napsal(a):
>> More: for some syntesizers where choices are "too slow" or "too fast"
>> sonic may be used for precised rate.
>
> yes, actually the problem with -100...0...100 that it does not tell
> you for the different modules whether
> 100 is 3X or just 1.5X. And here sonic can help and normalize 100 for
> all e.g. to the 3X.

Yes, we (I think it was me) decided to align rate setting with volume and pitch 
into the 
-100..100 range, but it was not a good decision.  Most synthesizers understand 
absolute 
rates in words per minute so it would make much more sense to use WPM values 
directly. 
Now we need to keep the -100..100 range for compatibility, but we may try to 
define an 
official conversion rules and make sure that all output modules use the same 
conversion. 
  This is, I am afraid, not the case now and that is the biggest pain about the 
-100..100 range.

Best regards, Tomas