Should include linear freq scale in...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:10 pm
... the Spectrum Filter module as a check-box option. A linear amplitude scale should also be included in that module as a check-box option. Yes the dB numbers are linear, but they represent logarithms of multiples of sound-pressure. There are a number of applications that have less to do with the aesthetics of music, and more to do with scientific analysis and processing of audio data (think animal calls, envionmental sounds, radio astronomy, etc), where linear scales are MORE DESIRABLE than logarithmic scales.
As for the frequency scaler (called Pitch in your software), I see you already have a linear option. That's good, but it's limited to between 50% (a frequency multiplier of 0.5) and 200% (a frequency multiplier of 2). It should go down at least as low as 10% and up at least as high as 1000%.
Yes, probably other software out there can do this, but as the primary customers would be science labs (which tend to have big budgets) the software tends to be RIDICULOUSLY OVERPRICED when it is intended primarily as "scientific" software. However your software is much cheaper, but it has just as much potential as the much more expensive software, if only you the developers tapped that potential by implementing the features I'm recommended in the above 2 paragraphs.
And since these are features that should have always been available (including the in the Windows XP 32bit version) I'm recommending that the next release version of this software implement these features, and be available for Window XP 32bit (even though you said the next version would probably be for Windows 7 64bit). After that, any future releases could be for whatever OS you wanted. But please don't deprive Windows XP 32bit users (A LOT OF PEOPLE still use this OS) of the features I recommended, that as I said I believe should have existed in this software from the very beginning.
As for the frequency scaler (called Pitch in your software), I see you already have a linear option. That's good, but it's limited to between 50% (a frequency multiplier of 0.5) and 200% (a frequency multiplier of 2). It should go down at least as low as 10% and up at least as high as 1000%.
Yes, probably other software out there can do this, but as the primary customers would be science labs (which tend to have big budgets) the software tends to be RIDICULOUSLY OVERPRICED when it is intended primarily as "scientific" software. However your software is much cheaper, but it has just as much potential as the much more expensive software, if only you the developers tapped that potential by implementing the features I'm recommended in the above 2 paragraphs.
And since these are features that should have always been available (including the in the Windows XP 32bit version) I'm recommending that the next release version of this software implement these features, and be available for Window XP 32bit (even though you said the next version would probably be for Windows 7 64bit). After that, any future releases could be for whatever OS you wanted. But please don't deprive Windows XP 32bit users (A LOT OF PEOPLE still use this OS) of the features I recommended, that as I said I believe should have existed in this software from the very beginning.