[Fluxus] scala.scm, rev. 2

[Joel Matthys]

OK, implemented the table lookup methods. Not too painful.

Also cleaned up some of the variable names and made method names more
consistent. (Still, hardly elegant and definitely not optimized!)

Joel

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 13:28 +0100, Kassen wrote:

> On 21/12/2011, Joel Matthys <joel at matthysmusic.com> wrote:
> > Slight revision. Some confusion about when functions can be called with
> > optional parameters. Anyway, works better now.
> 
> Great work, and fast too!
> 
> I had a look at this now, nothing to deep, mind you, and like most
> people my knowledge of tuning is a bit limited, it's a bit of a black
> art after all.
> 
> Do I understand correctly that your (scale-note ) -which I think will
> eventualy replace the plain note- is a lot more involved than the old
> one because it parses most of the scale stuff evey time it is called?
> And do I understand correctly that the advantage of this is that we
> can now have fractional notes that will be correct?
> 
> I'll defer to Dave, but my current gut instinct is wondering how much
> of thise we could pre-calculate at picking our scale to save cpu
> during realtime usage. Would you say, for example, that it might make
> sense to pre-calculate a table like (note ) uses now and use that in
> case of integer arguments while your function would take care of the
> fractional ones? That would save cpu in the common case while
> preserving the option to accurately use quarter-tone equal-tempered
> notes, I imagine.
> 
> I am open to the possibility that none of the above makes any sense
> and I completely misunderstood it all.
> 
> Yours,
> Kas.
> 


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