Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ardour, LADSPA, a marriage
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 11:21:46 EET
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >The only solution that works on any currently existing OS, except for
> >hard RT kernels, such as QNX, RTAI or RTL, is to run everything in a
> >single thread. Chains of processes are not possible with these kind of
> >latency requirements, so the only option for a modular system is a
> >host/plugin design, where the host application loads plugins as
> >libraries and executes them through direct calls from it's engine
> >thread.
>
> An excellent summary of the reason for using a monolith-with-plugin
> architecture. Thanks.
>
> That is, LADSPA, VST, MuCoS, or whatever plugin API will be
> >more suitable and mature when it's time to hack the code.
>
> Errr... its time. :)
Yeah, well, I kind of had a feeling that's the case! ;-)
//David
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