On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:52:10PM -0500, Andres Cabrera wrote:

> Rate is misleading as there is actually only a single rate in Csound:
> control rate. i-rate is not actually a rate, since it is not periodic,
> but occurs only on instrument initialization, and a-rate is not a rate
> either, but indicates a vector processed at k-rate.

That's an implementation detail, and irrelevant to a user.
Conceptually, samples are generated at a-rate. The whole
system behave 'as if'.

IMHO the term 'rate' comes closest to what is relevant to a
musical user. 'Type' is software engineering language, and
I'd guess most Csound users are not software engineers, nor
should they be expected to be.

Ciao,

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FA

Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica
Parma, Italia

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