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In Middle Path, Erlich used the word "damage" to refer to the absolute value of error<ref>Erlich referred to error as "mistuning" in this paper.</ref> weighted by [[harmonic distance]]. As the term damage grew in popularity and began to be generalized to be weighted by other complexities (such as TE), the original measurement eventually came to assume the more specific and technical name of "TOP damage". The "TOP" part of the name is due to the fact that when Erlich first described it, he described it in the context [[TOP tuning]], a tuning which is designed to minimize this particular type of damage. This sets a historical precedent, then, that other types of damage may be named either after a tuning that minimizes it, or the complexity used as a weight in its calculation (sometimes these are the same thing). | In Middle Path, Erlich used the word "damage" to refer to the absolute value of error<ref>Erlich referred to error as "mistuning" in this paper.</ref> weighted by [[harmonic distance]]. As the term damage grew in popularity and began to be generalized to be weighted by other complexities (such as TE), the original measurement eventually came to assume the more specific and technical name of "TOP damage". The "TOP" part of the name is due to the fact that when Erlich first described it, he described it in the context [[TOP tuning]], a tuning which is designed to minimize this particular type of damage. This sets a historical precedent, then, that other types of damage may be named either after a tuning that minimizes it, or the complexity used as a weight in its calculation (sometimes these are the same thing). | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT: tuning fundamentals#Damage]]: for a step-by-step textbook tutorial style introduction to this topic | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||