[linux-audio-dev] XAP: cue points / looping

[Tim Hockin]

> A synth would not care about PCPs at all, unless it's actually a 
> "vocaliser" that's generating backing harmonies from a HDR vocal 
> track or something like that. (And then, the data would probably come 
> from the HDR anyway. The "vocalizer" is just an audio effect, and 
> doesn't even need basic beat sync.)

> Right. A synth should (probably) never have PCP support, since it 
> can't do anything useful with it anyway.
> 
> The purpose with the PCP interface is simply to have a standard 
> protocol for the timeline/prebuffering stuff.

OK, I'm all for frills, where they make sense.  This seems to make sense.