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On 19 Feb 2010, at 18:37, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> On 02/19/2010 05:40 PM, Paul Davis wrote:

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>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Simon Jenkins

>>  wrote:

>>> I'm reading "CV input" as "invitation to modulate" and, yes,

>>> sometimes it makes no sense to modulate at the full audio rate, but

>>> sometimes it does. I'm just not sure a special and predetermined

>>> 1/16th or whatever control rate is worth the effort (and might even

>>> be a performance hit in some cases) for the reasons I described

>>> when I entered this thread.

>>

>> my feeling precisely. the storage issue is an interesting one, but

>> not clearly an imperative. i do think that a general purpose event

>> data type would be useful.

>

> goes to show that you shouldn't call automation data "CV", because it

> gives people the wrong ideas (hell, even my mailer is getting confused

> and thinks i should be attaching a file :-D)

>

> there are synths, and there is parameter automation. using the latter

> for amplitude modulation in the 20-20k band is just not a very good

> idea, and should not influence a design discussion...

This discussion is *about* using CV as automation data though. Does CV turn into automation data when you downsample it?
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