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> Most LV2 and LADSPA plugins do the DSP work in floating <br><div>> point... so... yes. :-)<br><br>[snip a load of guff...]<br><br>The apps should still work with float as they would on any platform.<br>LV2 nor LADSPA are going to add much overhead as they do not<br>manipulate floats.<br><br>> All those needless conversions don't settle right with me.<br><br>Then don't do them. The apps should process floats. The ARM<br>softfloat overhead is not that great and the coding required to get<br>access to the GPUs is suitable that developers will implement them<br>for optimisations.<br><br>> > Yes, but I don't think it has to be that big. The bigger <br>> > issue is why the hell would you want to do it, integrate <br>> > LV2 and LADSPA on to this platform?<br>> <br>> Why would we? Because they're mature technologies. Why <br>> reinvent the wheel?<br><br>I think Android is trying to avoid wheels altogether, wheels are very old hat.<br>Android is not Linux and you need to understand the difference between<br>an app and an application.<br><br>> > Don't you think it is more likely that people who are interested will run<br>> > Linux as a replacement for Android on the ARM tablets rather than have<br>> > the apps ported over?<br>> <br>> Maybe today, with tablets. But not their phones.<br><br>So are you suggesting the people who have phones, who don't want to contend<br>with installing Linux on them, will still want to contend with trying to gets apps to<br>interoperate with LV2 or LADSPA? Apps don't do much interoperation so you <br>are looking at one humongous can of worms and all that for very little gain when<br>there are ready made apps that provide a lot of that combined functionality.<br><br>Linux, LV2, LADSPA, plugins, disposable audio interfaces are all for people who<br>are up for a challenge. The app model was designed for all the hundreds of millions<br>of handset owners who for the very, very largest part have zero interest in being<br>confronted with this level of complexity. Why do you want to introduce it? For the<br>tiny minority who are interested in doing this on handsets/tablets then native Linux<br>ports are the probable attractive option.<br><br>Regards, nick<br></div> </div></body>
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