Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP and Event Outputs
From: Tim Goetze (tim_AT_quitte.de)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 16:25:25 EET
David Olofson wrote:
>So, sort them and keep track of where you are. You'll have to sort
>the events anyway, or the event system will break down when you send
>events out-of-order. The latter is what the event processing loop of
>every plugin will do, BTW - pretty trivial stuff.
what you describe here has a name: it's called queuing.
>Do event processors posses time travelling capabilites?
delays based on musical time do, whatever you like to call
it.
>It sounds like you're talking about "music edit operation plugins"
>rather than real time plugins.
you want to support 'instruments', don't you? 'instruments'
are used to produce 'music' (usually), and 'music' has a
well-defined concept of 'time'.
>If you just *use* a system, you won't have a clue what kind of
>timestamps it uses.
yeah, like for driving a car you don't need to know how
gas and brakes work.
>Do you know how VST timestamps events?
nope, i don't touch proprietary music software.
tim
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