[linux-audio-dev] more on XAP Virtual Voice ID system

Tim Hockin thockin at hockin.org
Wed Jan 8 02:44:01 UTC 2003


> > Either you need to NEVER re-use a VVID, or you need to tell the host when an
> > ended VVID is actually re-usable.  Or you need to have voice-ids allocated
> > by the plugin, and NOT the host, which I like more.
> 
> Having the plugins allocate them is a pain, its much easier if the host
> aloocates them, and just does so from a sufficiently large pool, if you
> have 2^32 host VVIDs per instrument you can just round robin them.

Why is it a pain?  I think it is clean.  I've never cared for the idea of
Virtual Voices.  Either a voice is on, or it is not.  The plugin and the
host need to agree on that.

More later - lots of email to catch up on



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