[linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Dec 5 10:49:00 UTC 2002


On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:10:16PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > I'm not sure how this can be handled easily, there are lots of
> > things like loading samples that will be impossible to handle in an
> > RT way, but I'm not sure that something like a sampler belongs in
> > this kind of API. I know there are VSTi samplers, but windows
> > people dont have jack.
> 
> Well, they have ReWire, but AFAIK, that supports only the "load as 
> DLL and run as callback" method...

And it doesn't appear to be as successful, Cubase and Protools dont use it
for thier primary i/o for example (c.f. Muse and Ardour).
 
- Steve 



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