[CM] (keynum :through) and (note :through) bug?

[Rick Taube]

Im sorry i thought i took care of this ! i was planning on  making  
the behavior agree with the text, ie it would return the closest  
note. it will take a day or to to get to it, my apologies for the delay.
-rick

On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Joshua Parmenter wrote:

> This has been awhile, but I thought I would check and see if any  
> decision about this had been made or anything committed to CVS.
>
> Thanks Rick,
>
> Josh
>
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 7:07 AM, Rick Taube wrote:
>
>> yes you are correct as i look at the docs they imply the behavior  
>> you expected! so im not sure which is the bug: the doc or the  
>> code. arrgh!
>> On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Joshua Parmenter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rick,
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking at it. :nearest would be nice, and as far as  
>>> equidistant decisions, I imagine a short warning in the doc would  
>>> be fine. I usually use the function with floats anyways, so I  
>>> don't imagine that happening very often. It would probably also  
>>> be good to change the docs on note and keynum, since 'closest' is  
>>> used quite a bit. This implied to me a round somewhere in the  
>>> function rather then floor...
>>>
>>> Thanks again for looking at it. And if you decide to add it to  
>>> CVS, please let me know.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Rick Taube wrote:
>>>
>>>> joshua -- apologies for the delay in this reply but i havent had  
>>>> much time to stare at code lately. the behavior you encountered  
>>>> isnt a bug but it also isnt much of a feature, its due to a  
>>>> 'floor' like search of the mode's legal steps. i could change  
>>>> that behavior but that would break existing behavior.
>>>>
>>>> perhaps i could add a :nearest keyword that would look for the  
>>>> nearest (rather than the lower) step (?) so you would write:
>>>>
>>>> (note 67 :nearest mymod)
>>>>
>>>> of course if its equidistant to a step above AND below then it  
>>>> still might not return the one you want, so ill have to think  
>>>> about how best to do this.
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Joshua Parmenter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all...
>>>>>
>>>>> This doesn't seem like the expected behavior. Is this right?  
>>>>> And if it is, does anyone know a way to get the values I'm  
>>>>> expecting?
>>>>>
>>>>> (defvar mymode)
>>>>> (setq mymode (new mode :degrees '(c df ef f gs a b c)))
>>>>> (note 67 :through mymode); => F ??? shouldn't it be GS?
>>>>> (note 67.5 :through mymode) ;=> AF ???
>>>>> (keynum 67 :through mymode); => 65 ??? shouldn't it be 68?
>>>>> (keynum 67.4 :through mymode) ;=> 65 !!!
>>>>> (keynum 67.5 :through mymode) ;=> 68 !!!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Josh
>>>>>
>>>>> ******************************************
>>>>> Joshua Parmenter
>>>>> University of Washington
>>>>> Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media
>>>>> School of Music
>>>>> Seattle, Washington 98195
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/
>>>>> http://www.dxarts.washington.edu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> ******************************************
>>> Joshua Parmenter
>>> University of Washington
>>> Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media
>>> School of Music
>>> Seattle, Washington 98195
>>>
>>> http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/
>>> http://www.dxarts.washington.edu
>>>
>>>
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