[linux-audio-dev] XAP and Event Outputs

[Tim Goetze]

David Olofson wrote:

>So, sort them and keep track of where you are. You'll have to sort 
>the events anyway, or the event system will break down when you send 
>events out-of-order. The latter is what the event processing loop of 
>every plugin will do, BTW - pretty trivial stuff.

what you describe here has a name: it's called queuing.

>Do event processors posses time travelling capabilites?

delays based on musical time do, whatever you like to call
it.

>It sounds like you're talking about "music edit operation plugins" 
>rather than real time plugins.

you want to support 'instruments', don't you? 'instruments'
are used to produce 'music' (usually), and 'music' has a
well-defined concept of 'time'.

>If you just *use* a system, you won't have a clue what kind of 
>timestamps it uses.

yeah, like for driving a car you don't need to know how
gas and brakes work.

>Do you know how VST timestamps events?

nope, i don't touch proprietary music software.

tim