Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] plug-in mania and the sound editor du jour
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 20:23:32 EEST
>Thanks... that just makes me glow. :-)
Great, it has the desired effect.
>Your point is well taken... big applications require a different
>development model than little utilities. Part of the success of
>Unix is that there are very few big pieces, primarily the kernel.
>Everything else is small and interchangable, allowing a lot of
>development to be done quickly before people get bored or mired
>in arguments / philosophical discussions. It's very pragmatic.
>
>To me the question is not whether this is a good idea; it's only
>whether it is feasible for audio applications.
This is where I think that the plugin architecture is the clear
winner. Its let us use a Unix-like development model, with the glue
being the plugin API instead of the Unix IPC model, which isn't
adequate for low-latency real time work (though it works nicely for
non-real time stuff). People can concentrate on the little details of
the tool - see some of the bizarre freeware VST plugins for example -
while knowing that it will "just fit" straight into the existing
framework.
This feels very similar to me to the way that I was able to take
delight in the idea of a program that just read from stdin and wrote
to stdout, knowing it could work with dozens or hundreds of other
similar programs.
--p
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