[Stk] bow pressure units
Stephen Sinclair
sinclair at music.mcgill.ca
Fri Aug 10 09:25:42 PDT 2012
Hi,
I am going to write in a paper that the STK Bowed class specifies a
bow pressure in normalized units. It seems they are approximately
between 0 and 1. I'm not 100% sure if this is correct, so I thought I
should just verify. Does anyone know if the bow pressure, specified
by Bowed::controlChange(), is translatable to physical units?
controlChange() seems to accept MIDI values, which it normalizes to
0--1 range. I know the BowTable is a bit of an ad-hoc simulation of a
transmission coefficient, so I'm not sure if it's based strictly on a
physically-meaningful unit. My impression is that it's really just a
ratio of the supported range, which is unspecified.
(While I'm looking at Bowed documentation, by the way, I noticed that
Bowed.h still mentions "breath pressure" instead of "bow velocity".)
thanks,
Steve
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