Re: Fading sound in and out

I still think the easiest assistive thing to do here is to make
cancelScheduledValues() insert a schedule point of the current value, as
well as set .value to the current value.

Ray, I don't see a way to avoid saying you need to do the math yourself
unless we completely flip to a slopes-and-trigger-voltages model  (keep in
mind we cannot rely on callbacks here - JS would not give us an answer
quickly enough to, say "call a callback when I hit 1").  In the new
AudioWorker world, it would be easy enough to create an envelope node that
worked that way;  but changing audioparam's model I'm somewhat opposed to.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Norbert Schnell <Norbert.Schnell@ircam.fr>
wrote:

>
> On 26 Aug 2014, at 21:45, "Ray Bellis" <ray@bellis.me.uk> wrote:
> >> What I would expect is that calling the function
> "linearRampToValueAtTime"
> >> would use the current value at current time as a start point and ramp
> from
> >> there to the given value at the given time. In that case the fade times
> >> are always respected (even though the slopes wouldn't).
> >> I could not think of any scenario in which this behaviour would not be
> >> desired, do you?
> >
> > See endless threads passim where it has been noted that for an ADSR EG it
> > is the slope that's most important.
>
> Well, I don't think that the slope is worth a lot in a env if you generate
> a click right before it.
> … and if you want to control the slope you always can use "setValueAtTime"
> and even "cancelScheduledValues".
>
> (I find it just a pity that one needs to call functions that "cancel" and
> "set" to generate continuous envelopes while "ramp" may generate
> discontinuities.)
>
> > Consequently to maintain that slope you must somehow both determine the
> > current value of the EG (if non-zero) and the amount of time you expect
> > the EG to take to go from that value to the new value.
>
> Can that be something like this?
>
>   var now = audioContext.currentTime;
>   var currentValue = myParam.value;
>
>   myParam.cancelScheduledValues(now);
>   myParam.setValueAtTime(currentValue, now);
>
>   var duration = targetValue / slope;
>   // or: var targetValue = duration * slope;
>
>   myParam.linearRampToValueAtTime(targetValue, now + duration);
>
> N.
>
>
>