Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] more on XAP Virtual Voice ID system
From: David Olofson (david_AT_olofson.net)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 22:11:17 EET
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 08.37, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > > Either you need to NEVER re-use a VVID, or you need to tell the
> > > host when an ended VVID is actually re-usable. Or you need to
> > > have voice-ids allocated by the plugin, and NOT the host, which
> > > I like more.
> >
> > Having the plugins allocate them is a pain, its much easier if
> > the host aloocates them, and just does so from a sufficiently
> > large pool, if you have 2^32 host VVIDs per instrument you can
> > just round robin them.
>
> Why is it a pain? I think it is clean. I've never cared for the
> idea of Virtual Voices. Either a voice is on, or it is not. The
> plugin and the host need to agree on that.
I simply don't see why. This is tracker philosophy. MIDI sequencers
never have a clue about what synths are actually doing, but it all
works just fine anyway. (Better than traditional trackers ever could,
for most things, I'd say.)
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