Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] more fundamental questions
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 13:56:31 EEST
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:24:55PM -0400, eli+@gs211.sp.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> Jay Ts wrote:
> > I did a little more thinking on this and realized that MIDI is essentially
> > a control signal, and maybe it would make sense, in a general way, to
> > include control signals in the design in addition to audio, and then
> > make MIDI (or some cooked version of it) a class of control signal.
>
> Control signals are almost a must for synthesis. Two thirds and up of
> your signals in a patch can be control, so running those at
> control-rate gives you a factor of three in speed. Whether they're
> passed between applications quite as much as that, which is what LAAGA
> cares about, I don't know.
I don't really thin that control signals in the sense of CV are going to
be that important to LAAGA, they should be implementable via named signals
as discussed earlier.
- Steve
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