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

Tom stillone at snowcrest.net
Sun Dec 8 22:09:23 UTC 2002


> personally, i think ardour is an excellent proof-by-implementation 
> that yes, busses are really just a special class of strip, 

Well, no.  Busses are not strips.  Busses are not signal paths.  Busses
are unity gain summing nodes that facilitate many-to-one connections. 
Ardour depends on jack for all of its busses.

with no 
> basic difference in the kinds of controls you'd want for each. these 
> days, an AudioTrack in ardour is derived from the object that defines 
> a Bus. the only differences are that a Bus takes input from 
> "anywhere", whereas an AudioTrack takes input from its playlist (via a 
> DiskStream) and can be rec-enabled. other than, they are basically 
> identical. 

Main outs, aux sends, and sub outs are a special class of strip that
receive their input exclusively from busses.  Other than that, there is
no difference between these and any other kind of strip.

Tom



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