Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 00:41:55 EET
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:01:15 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> Well, those kind of belong together - at least if you're working on
> the level where feedback loops are used frequently. I think an
> "ordinary" plugin API can do some of this, but only for sane feedback
> delays, unless you can accept burning most of the CPU time on
> overhead.
It doesnt have to be that expensive, but you have to design your system
that way from the ground up, and it basicly rules out conventional
plugins.
> Modular synths that generate code from graphs are a rather
> interesting approach, though... :-)
Aren't they :) There is a good one for Windows, called SyncModular. You
can drill down right into the basic filters and see a bunch of z^-1's and
amplifiers :)
You could do better under linux with Free Software, but I just dont have
enough free time, or GUI skills :(
Linuxsampler is using a similar approach, but its not blockless (and
it wouldn't be noticably better if it was).
Still if anyone ever wants to tackle this they can have a fair chunk of my
spare brain cycles.
- Steve
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