[linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

[David Olofson]

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 12.56, Sami P Perttu wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > do we really need spline?  How many plugins are going to
> > implement that?
>
> Splines would give us 6 dB/octave less discontinuity artifacts than
> linear interpolation, or something like that.

Doesn't really sound like enough to eliminate internal filtering in 
many cases at all... :-/


> I don't know if we
> really need them. The plugin interface can be made simple.

Yeah, but I think there are more "hidden" issues with this than we 
realized at first. It probably won't help sensitive algorithms all 
that much, and isn't needed for the less sensitive algorithms.


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