[linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

[David Olofson]

On Saturday 01 March 2003 17.12, Simon Jenkins wrote:
[...]
> >then these components must be built of other components...
> >i dont see a reason why one wants a big complex component
> >if it could be built from smaller components...
> >(other than performace)
>
> Absolutely they must be built out of other components. The question
> is: who does the building? I'm saying that the plugin designer
> should be able to present a complex "plugin" which is actually a
> ready-connected graph of simpler components. The alternative is for
> the plugin designer to present a "bag of bits" for the user to
> connect together.

If we do this on the right level, we can have both. We definitely 
should have a standard graph description (and preset) file format 
anyway, and all we need is a way for plugin authors to provide useful 
subgraphs with their plugins.

As to user interfaces, this is where many->one and one->many 
(DSP->GUI) gets in. You might want to have a single "panel" for a 
mixer, even if it's constructed from multiple DSP plugins.


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