Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Synth APIs, pitch control

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Synth APIs, pitch control
From: Sami P Perttu (perttu_AT_cc.helsinki.fi)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 21:14:17 EET

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, David Olofson wrote:

> On Friday 13 December 2002 15.51, Sami P Perttu wrote:
> [...]
> > Re: pull model, an alternative to supporting pull in XAP is to just
> > say that such plugins should act as hosts.
>
> That's not much better than not having a plugin API at all. To
> support direct-from-disk sampling, the host would have to be a
> *sampler*. Why have an *instrument* plugin API, then? It doesn't make
> much sense to me to run synths inside a sampler... :-)

But... running synths inside a granular synthesizer makes sense. Besides,
it's not just an instrument API, there's bound to be a white noise plugin
:). 

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Sami Perttu                       "Flower chase the sunshine"
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