In doing the XML serialization work, I had the idea to make a common base class for the Teragon plugins, since they all have a bunch of identical boilerplate code in them. This wasn't such a bother for the parameter handling, since all of those functions were simple one-liners, but the serialization routine was starting to get rather complex and it pained me to keep copy-pasting it between plugins. So, I introduced a new abstract base class which extends AudioProcessor and takes care of all the PluginParameters related stuff. Doing this eliminates a ton of boilerplate code from all the plugins, making them much simpler to maintain and understand.
Also, today I fixed a nasty bug in NotNotchFilter where a small (but audible) click could be heard when moving from bypass to filter states. The reason for this is that the first "tick" of the knob ended up being a few hundred Hertz, which is quite an extreme difference to apply suddenly to a filter. Exponential scaling didn't work very well in practice for NotNotchFilter, because the frequency range goes from 0-20kHz, so the first half of the knob's motion would only cover ~10Hz, and the second half would race through all remaining frequencies.
So today, I busted open the venerable yet forgotten "Grapher" program which ships with Mac OSX. I discovered (or perhaps forgot) that one of the lesser-known features of this program is that you can generate a point set, and then interpolate through them. So I crafted a curve which would work well with the knob's range, and generated a 5th-degree polynomial equation to fit the points. The result is that now the knob is very comfortable to use, and the click is gone! I'll probably need to generate another set of curves for HiLoFilter, which has a similar problem but a different knob action.
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| Yay for math! |