[linux-audio-dev] Re: Synth APIs, pitch control

[David Olofson]

On Friday 13 December 2002 20.14, Sami P Perttu wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, David Olofson wrote:
> > On Friday 13 December 2002 15.51, Sami P Perttu wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > Re: pull model, an alternative to supporting pull in XAP is to
> > > just say that such plugins should act as hosts.
> >
> > That's not much better than not having a plugin API at all. To
> > support direct-from-disk sampling, the host would have to be a
> > *sampler*. Why have an *instrument* plugin API, then? It doesn't
> > make much sense to me to run synths inside a sampler... :-)
>
> But... running synths inside a granular synthesizer makes sense.

Yes... But does the API prevent that? (Note that plugins can host 
plugins...)


> Besides, it's not just an instrument API, there's bound to be a
> white noise plugin
> :).

A white noise generator isn't an instrument? If you can turn it on 
and of in a somewhat rhythmical sense, I'd say it is! ;-)


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