Re: DynamicsCompressorNode.reduction is read-only AudioParam ?

Incidentally, I believe the reason is related to side-chain compression;
I'd had a conversation with Chris about this a while ago, and his take was
that sidechain compression could be done by assigning the .value of a
gainNode.gain to the AudioParam output of reduction.  This does not work
(IIRC) in Blink/webkit, and AFAIK, nowhere else do you assign
audioparam.value to an audioparam and expect it to make a connect()ion-like
connection.

I do think we must design sidechain compression into the DynamicCompressor
before we finish off v1, so I'd like to consider that together with this
change.  Sidechain (ducking, de-essing, etc) is incredibly common.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com>wrote:

> This has been discussed in <
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2013AprJun/0181.html>,
> and we agreed that it should be a readonly float.  Paul, can you please
> make that change, if nobody objects?  I'd like us to fix Gecko based on
> that as soon as possible if we change the spec here.
>
> --
> Ehsan
> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:30 AM, s p <sebpiq@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> DynamicsCompressorNode.reduction is specified to be a monitor value, so
>> read-only, but the interface says it's an AudioParam (
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/webaudio/specification.html#DynamicsCompressorNode-section).
>> So my question is what is the point in having a read-only AudioParam?
>>
>> Sebastien Piquemal
>>
>
>