db volume scaling

Orville Bennett illogical1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 17:43:37 UTC 2009



Tim Blechmann wrote:
>> If we go that route I would suggest having the percent-based
>> be the default, as it is probably more intuitive to more people (because
>> that's pretty much been the precedent over the years for media player
>> apps).
>
> speaking about other media players, i would be curious, how the mapping
> from percentage to amplitude factor is done in other applications?
> i could imagine:
> - percentage == amplitude factor
> - percentage mapped via stevens' law
> - percentage mapped to a decibel range
>
I was going to say let's just try it (what's the worst that could 
happen). But then there was this:
> i would try to avoid to make it more configurable, but maybe do some
> user test with different scalings ... one could quickly write prototype
> in supercollider, pure-data or something similar ...
O_o

Get off my lawn.
Please?



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