Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 18:33:19 EET
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:44:39 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> I'm still not sure I understand the terminology here... Considering
> some recent posts, I assume that the following applies:
Yes, more or less. I was using instrument as in VSTi instrument, ie an
instance of a thing instantiated from a .so file. The word plugin is far
too overloaded.
The intention is that these things would (on the whole) be sound
generators, right? To me plugin implies inline processing.
> As to the "gets a voice ID" thing, no, I think this is a bad idea.
> The host should *pick* a voice ID from a previously allocated pool of
> Virtual Voice IDs. That way, you eliminate the host-plugin or
> plugin-plugin (this is where it starts getting interesting)
> roundtrip, which means you can, amond other things:
Good idea.
- Steve
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