hi, thanks for taking care. On 01/12/2018 09:54 AM, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: > Aeolus is a pipe organ emulator that should be good enough to make an > organist enjoy playing it. It is a software synthesiser optimised for > this job, with possibly hundreds of controls for each stop, that enable > the user to intonate his instrument, i.e. equalize volume and tone afaiu it's perfectly ok to use "to voice" in English as this is the term used by organ builders. some quick googling gives me e.g. [1] and [2]. for the german translation "intonieren" see [3], which is a bit more specific to the organ context than the generic "Intonieren" wikipedia page you linked to. so upstream seems to have chosen this term intentionally in order to stress the professional quality of the synthesiser. i think we could keep this ambition in all translations (including the english one). > the user to intonate his instrument, i.e. equalize volume and tone oh my, "his" instrument? this should be changed to a gender neutral form. cheers (and thanks for doing the translations) gfmasrd IOhannes [1] http://www.pykett.org.uk/digitalaidstovoicing.htm [2] http://www.lewtak.com/art-of-pipe-voicing/ [3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgelpfeife#Intonation
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