Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] LADMEA Prototype
From: Richard W.E. Furse (richard_AT_muse.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 01:14:17 EEST
In the streaming model, there's nothing to stop members of the community
being coded so their algorithm is of form "I'm a brainless idiot. When you
tell me to get busy I'll do my processing and send you the results straight
away." The algorithms that this suits will be happy in either the LAAGA or
LADMEA worlds. Other ("free thinking") algorithms that don't have this
approach (e.g. something listening to a MIDI port or real-time GUI) are much
less happy in the dictatorship.
LADMEA is quite different to GLAME and GStreamer in that it is not an
application, but a short API that allows a client to communicate with such
applications.
--Richard
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From: owner-linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu
[mailto:owner-linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Paul Davis
Sent: 14 August 2001 13:56
To: linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADMEA Prototype
[...]
My model features a fascist dictator who screams at every node in
turn: "hey you brainless idiot in box 1! get busy, and tell me when
you're done!" The dictator maintains absolute rigid control over the
entire system. The nodes are droids with (almost) no knowledge of the
larger system in which they are embedded.
The "streaming" model represented by GLAME, GStreamer et al. instead
makes the nodes more like a community of cooperating neighbours. They
each do their own thing within a framework that allows them to
cooperate and communicate with each other. They each understand the
system, help shape it, and contribute to and draw from it.
[...]
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