AO conditional feature list sorting

[firolightfog]

OK, so without even thinking of the time and effort needed for the implementation I'd like to share my ergonomic proposal for sorting the formulas in AO modules.

Current order	Proposed order
if Y>0↣X/C	if Y<0↣1/0
if Y<0↣X/C	if Y<0↣C/X
if Y=0↣X/C	if Y<0↣C/Y
if Y>0↣C/X	if Y<0↣X/C
if Y<0↣C/X	if Y<0↣Y/C
if Y=0↣C/X	if Y=0↣1/0
if Y>0↣1/0	if Y=0↣C/X
if Y<0↣1/0	if Y=0↣C/Y
if Y=0↣1/0	if Y=0↣X/C
if Y>0↣Y/C	if Y=0↣Y/C
if Y<0↣Y/C	if Y>0↣1/0
if Y=0↣Y/C	if Y>0↣C/X
if Y>0↣C/Y	if Y>0↣C/Y
if Y<0↣C/Y	if Y>0↣X/C
if Y=0↣C/Y	if Y>0↣Y/C

I understand the logic behind the currently used order. It's just that I use the AO modules (specially AO-101) a lot and I realized that I always struggle to find the right option in the list as it is sorted by the output result. But it requires reverse thinking in a way.... The proposed sorting would allow to consider the input value and then to decide on the output.

Cheers, Andras

[david-c14]

Thanks, that makes sense.

Unfortunately there's no easy way to change the order now, because existing patches would break. Which algorithm is currently selected is stored as a parameter value in the patch.

If I ever get back to developing, I might deprecate the AO-1xx series and implement a replacement AO-2xx series. In which case I could tidy up this, and a few other flaws, and provide a convenient cut and paste migration for users wanting to switch to newer devices.