Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Synth APIs, pitch control
From: David Olofson (david_AT_olofson.net)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 21:48:59 EET
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11.38, nick wrote:
[...]
> For a complete contrast, please look over
> http://amsynthe.sourceforge.net/amp_plugin.h which i am still
> toying with as a(nother) plugin api suitable for synths. I was
> hoping to wait until i had a nicely written host and plugins to
> demonstrate it effectively, but that could be a few more weeks -
> the code's there but its a bit of a hack ATM.
>
> It's very close to VST, and that was the idea - to make it easy to
> write a plugin for both at once!
IMHO, VST is a somewhat messy LADSPA, which now (after the addition
of some features and the event interface) is suffering severely from
being expanded in ways not originally taken in account.
I think we should learn from what VST does and how. I also think we
should *learn* from it's mistakes - not copy them!
> The argument against c++ has been a constantly changing ABI, but
> with the release of GCC 3.2 it finally looks like G++ will have a
> stable API.
Yeah, right! ;-)
> time will tell i guess.
Indeed.
Other reasons not to use C++ for an API like this:
* C++ is major overkill for this kind of API.
* "Everyone" knows C - few know C++ well enough.
* Harder to make language wrappers.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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