[sdiy] Black Magic oscillator cans

[Tim Ressel]

Yo,

The units tell you what scale is being referenced. At
least in theory. So when someone says 'cents' we all
know that the log note scale is being talked about.
The measure of percent is unitless, hence the
confusion. We should say 'percent frequency' or
'percent semitone'. Assuming the 'cent' in the word
'percent' means 'cents' as in intervals is a result of
the above confusion. 

So if 100% means 100 cents then yes, 100% is a
semitone. My diatribe (no, the previous one) was
referring to linear frequency scale.

Still confused? Try beer. works for me.  ;-)

--tr

--- Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se> wrote:
> From: "Theo" <t.hogers at home.nl>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Black Magic oscillator cans
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:31:30 +0200
> 
> > Err, 100% whole tone, 50% semi
> 
> Err... either of them is confusing for me...
> 
> 100% a semi-note <=> 1% is a cent if we run in
> log-scale
> 100% a whole note <=> 1% is 2 cents if we run in
> log-scale
> 100% is the frequency <=> 1% is a 100th of in
> frequency if we run in lin-scale
> 
> Personally I would NEVER use percent in anything but
> the linear scale, since
> otherwise some additive measure would be more
> appropriate (like +3 dB).
> 
> For these small deviations, linear scale is probably
> best used anyway.
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus


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