Num/Denom controls on zone pitch

[Andreya-Autumn]

Discussing harmonic ratios of playback and such with Kinsey today, it occurs that this could be really cool. Just a N and D with range 1...16 like in the FM filter or Ring Mod procs.

There is room for it:

Let's try it sometime! Getting it reasonably modulatable will take some thought I think. I think the way I'd do it is put a tiny slew on the pitch changes introduced by those controls on the engine side, to avoid the most horrible clicks. Some experimenting needed.

[Andreya-Autumn]

I guess another question is if this should be on zone pitch (including processors) or on sample playback. I would be inclined to lean towards sample playback, because how cool would it be to send samples at varying playback ratios into a string resonator (with the resonator at the root note). But other thoughts welcome.

[mkruselj]

I kinda think this should be a mode on the tuning control itself. Right-click set to ratio mode. goes from 1/16 to 16x. Done.

[Andreya-Autumn]

Hmmm it really really needs two controls though. -16...16 is about 1% as useful as num/denom each being 1...16

[Andreya-Autumn]

But what we could do is use the one-knob idiom that we discussed on LFO rates!

[mkruselj]

I think the UI room is too tight for that here. Right-click set to Ratio mode and the second value edit appears to the left, that should be fine tho.

There is zero room for this on SAMPLE pane, tho.

[Andreya-Autumn]

Yeah and we also said Sample pane params aren't mod targets...

I do like the RMB idea but I wonder what happens if you need a fine tune as well. Hmmm...

[mkruselj]

You can then finetune at sample level? I think this is a perfectly acceptable compromise.

[Andreya-Autumn]

Yeah good point! That control would then affect the whole zone playback (including procs) right? Like the regular pitch control does. Anything else would be counterintuitive.

In the mod matrix right now we have one target for zone pitch and one for sample pitch (affecting all variants). The latter doesn't have a control on the UI. If/when we get these modulatable we could do the same there.

[mkruselj]

Yeah good point! That control would then affect the whole zone playback (including procs) right? Like the regular pitch control does. Anything else would be counterintuitive.

Yes, of course. doesn't make sense to have it any other way.