Re: [Traverso-devel] Curves, nodes and behaviour (a.k.a. Envelopes?)

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Remon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>>> 2. What kind of curves do we have actually? Gain and Pan, both for Track
>>>> and AudioClips ?
>>>> Should they be created and active by default ?
>>>> One idea (which is perhaps the default in other applications as well),
>>>> is to use the gain/pan value to set the first node of the Gain/Pan curve
>>>> as the offset/start node which can't be removed and only moved
>>>> vertically ....
>>> Sounds good.
>> I'm not sure I follow you... I think the gain/pan value of the
>> track/clip should be independent of the curves. Just multiply them
>> together instead... So If you have a gain curve that goes from 1.0 to
>> 0.0, you can keep it that way but still change the clips gain value. So
>> if the clip gain value is 0.5, you get in effect a gain that begins on
>> 0.5 and drops to 0.0, (the curve (1.0->0.0) * 0.5)...
> 
> You're of course correct, I was mixing 2 things.
> What I really wanted to know is what would represent the 0dB value, the full 
> height, half the height?
> If is the full height, a curve can't 'boost' the audio volume....

Perhaps somewhat above the middle, like the faders of a hardware mixing
desk...

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