Thanks for the clarification.

Attached is a csd showing what I'm trying to accomplish in a table.
Any ideas as to what GEN (or what parameters to GEN05 ?) would create a
y=x*x
curve when x is a value between 0.0 and 1.0

best
Oeyvind

2007/9/30, David Bowen <dmb0317@gmail.com>:
> Oeyvind,
>
>    An exponential curve would be one like y = 2 ^x where the normalized
> index is in the exponent not in the base. For your particular case where the
> table value is the square of the index I'd call it a quadratic curve.
>
> David Bowen
>
>
> On 9/29/07, Oeyvind Brandtsegg <obrandts@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to create a table containing a an exponential curve (or
> > so I thought),
> > where the table value equals the normalized index raised to the 2nd power.
> >
> > for example, for a table size of 4(+1) I would have these values:
> > 0, 0.0625, 0.25, 0.5625, 1
> > being calulated as:
> > (0/4)*(0/4), (1/4)*(1/4), (2/4)*(2/4), (3/4)*(3/4), (4/4)*(4/4)
> >
> > This is the curve I would expect when using an exponential curve for
> > mapping of midi controller values.
> > It would be nice if I could find a GEN routine that did this, and I
> > expected GEN05 to do it, but it seems I have misunderstood something
> > about exponential curves as I don't get this curve with GEN05.
> >
> > Could someone please explain how GEN05 calculates it's values,
> > and indicate what would be the correct term for the curve I describe above
> ?
> >
> > best
> > Oeyvind
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