[linux-audio-dev] (fwd) Unified Audio Plugin Architecture (Meeting)

[Jay Vaughan]

>On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:00:41 +0100, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>  > From my standpoint, I'd love to see DSP processes written to a "UAPA"
>  > have a completely text-based interface - stream in XML data, stream
>  > it out, over a socket (what platform doesn't support this?).
>
>Converting between ASCII and IEEE float is two expensivefor this to be
>practical.
>

Well, the *data* can be transferred over the same socket in binary, 
no conversion required.  What I'm talking about is the definition of 
the GUI in a way that is not platform-dependent.

Plugins really need to be separated from Interface properly in order 
for a cross-platform plugin standard to work properly.  Every one of 
the existing plugin 'standards' was created in an attempt to solve 
this DSP/GUI integration issue, and I think its time the problem went 
away with a quick move to XML-based schemes.

SynthEd is a step in the right direction in this regard, I reckon...

-- 
Jay Vaughan
Access Music
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