Embarrassing newb question

[jordanwhitede]

Here’s another opinionated but IMO helpful thread from @nathan on this topic:

Outdated sclang features: mul/add and Mix

two sclang features that i don’t recommend using: mul/add arguments, and the Mix class. SinOsc.ar(440, 0, 0.1) and SinOsc.ar(440) * 0.1 do the same thing, but the latter is far more readable. you don’t have to know the argument list of SinOsc.ar to be able to tell what the 0.1 is doing. * 0.1 is how you multiply by 0.1 anywhere else in sclang. Mix(array) and array.sum do the same thing, but array.sum is more sclang idiomatic, and Mix confuses you into thinking it’s a UGen (which it is not — ch…