db volume scaling

[Tim Blechmann]

>>> Get off my lawn.
>>> Please?
>> äh, did i miss something?
> Nah. Trolling fer the lulz.

i have no intend to do trolling.

i may have sounded rude, since i have the feeling, that some basics of
psychoacoustics are ignored in this discussion. i really want to keep
the discussion on a technical level. i am sorry, of someone got a bad
impression of my intentions ...
personally, i am both a user and a developer of audio software aimed to
professionals (audio synthesis, recording, mastering, spacialization
etc), where you cannot find anything else than a logarithmic scale for
representing volumes for psychoacoustic reasons ...

> I _was_ down for trying your patch till it seemed like the "first wave" 
> of changes meant to introduce overly complicated features to the volume 
> slider.

all i wanted was introducing two things:
- a logarithmic scale for the volume slider instead of a power law scale
- a well-defined and commonly used unit instead of `percent'.

best, tim

-- 
tim at klingt.org
http://tim.klingt.org

Music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet
inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.
  Henry Miller

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