Re: [Audacity-quality] ERB scale

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

On 31/08/2015 16:00, Peter Sampson wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I've been doing my best to update the page in the 2.1.2 Manual
> for Spectrograms Preferences:
> http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Spectrograms_Preferences
>
> I got fairly stuck on the various Scale and Algorithm settings, but 
> ploughed
> ahead with Wikipedia as "my friend" - so it *will* need a fair bit of 
> editing
> in those two sections.
>
> In particular I note that Wikipedia refers to:
>  "equivalent rectangular bandwidth or ERB"
>
> On this basis it seems to me that perhaps your nomenclature for ERBS
> is tautologous in its use of the final S for scale - i.e. a scale 
> which is ERB
> Scale. And thus the  name for this scale might be better as simply "ERB".
>
> And this is an allowably fixable item under semi-freddo.
Not just allowable.  If these kind of changes are wanted/valid/correct, 
positively encouraged.

Later, in Frozen, it's more locked down.  P1 fixes in Frozen are always 
automatically OK.  P2s are generally good, but ask first.

The RM.