Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [linux-audio-dev] MAIA status
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 09:53:02 EET
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:17, David Olofson wrote:
[...]
> MAIA - as opposed to VST 2.0, which has a similar event system,
> which is strapped onto an older, function call based API -
> implements sample accurate timing from the ground up; every plugin
> has an outer event decoding loop around the DSP loop (*), and
> breaks the inner loop to process every event before the exact
> sample as indicated by the event timestamp. This is normally done
> entirely within the outer loop of the plugin - no function calls;
> just raw, optimized inline code.
>
> (*) Except for plugins that really don't want or can't respond with
> sample accuracy - for those, you just process all events for
> the current buffer before entering the DSP loop. That's all -
> no special cases at run time, host support or anything.
Oh, not entirely true, actually; such a plugin probably should tell
the host that it's not going to care much about timestamps, just in
case the user wonders why it appears to have so sloppy timing. :-)
There are other issues as well, but those are related to Protocols
and protocol tricks that perhaps are too weird to ever find a real
use. However, even if some of these things do get into the API, the
timestamps are still there (even if the host may chose not to
guarantee their order if the plugin claims that it doesn't care),
it's still possible to handle in the event decoding phase.
//David
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