Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)
From: David Olofson (david_AT_olofson.net)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 22:26:12 EET
On Saturday 07 December 2002 17.33, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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.
Ok. (But VSTis can be multichanne/multipart, AFAIK.)
> The intention is that these things would (on the whole) be sound
> generators, right? To me plugin implies inline processing.
The word "plugin", AFAIK, simply refers to something you plug into an
application - it's not limited to DSP plugins or generators, and
doesn't even have to have anything to do with audio. It's just the
music industry that has hijacked the word. :-)
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