Re: Nominal values (Was: GainNode with gain > 1)

I would say that we should remove the mentions of nominal values.  Such
notions really belongs in the developer documentation: <
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web_Audio_API>

Cheers,

--
Ehsan
<http://ehsanakhgari.org/>


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Olivier Thereaux <Olivier.Thereaux@bbc.co.uk
> wrote:

>
> On 6 May 2013, at 17:08, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  What I think we should do is to remove the mention of nominal values
> here and everywhere else, and add test cases that make sure implementations
> do not clamp the gain value when its absolute value is greater than 1.
>
> I have to admit to being confused by the use of "nominal values" in the
> spec at the moment.
>
> The term "nominal" is not defined anywhere, and it appears to be used for
> values that are completely free (GainNode), clamped (WaveShaperNode.curve)
> or not explicit (DynamicsCompressorNode).
>
> Should we either:
> * remove all mentions of "nominal" values and explicitly describe the
> limits and behaviour, or
> * define "nominal" in the conformance section and use it exclusively for
> clamped values?
>
>
> --
> Olivier
>
>
>
>
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