Hi,
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:08:16PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Hi Frank,The [1, 0 50( message will almost always trigger different output when fed to [line~] and [vline~]. The only exceptionis when the ramp ends exactly on a block boundary--otherwise [line~] will stretch
... or compress ...
the final part of the ramp tothe block boundary.
You're right, I wasn't thinking of the line-endpoints in my explanation. In fact, until now I believed, that these wouldn't be quantized with line~, but indeed they are (see attachement). And it's pretty much what Miller writes in the book: http://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques/latest/book-html/node43.html#fig03.05
Still in my view the quantization of endpoints is a bit counter-intuitive. Whereas the actual firing of a message from the GUI is inherently vague and shaky, the duration of the ramp (50 ms in the example) is written explicitely in the control message. That [line~] changes it, "feels" like a bug, although it isn't, and in the end it's the same way, [line~] deals with clock-delayed messages.
For many applications the correct timing of start points musically is more important (drums!), but one should be aware of possible quantization at endpoints as well.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__