[linux-audio-dev] Creating the conditions for VST-like plugins on Linux.

[Juan Linietsky]

Dave Robillard wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-08-04 at 14:57 -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote:
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>>The following are excuses:
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>>-Because we need core and interface separation, this way we warranty a 
>>clean design and network transparency
>>-Because it would force both interface and core to be memory locked, as 
>>a result of being a jack clients, forcing more physical memory to be used
>>-Because separating interface and core makes for a clear design.
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>>And I say, ALL THIS IS LIES. Every single of such reasons are of no 
>>concern to musicans. If I just want to make music, I would not care 
>>about any of such reasons. I'd just fire up an application and make 
>>music. All that seems to me more like academia-speech than real reasons
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>Maybe YOUR way of making music doesn't care.  MINE does.  Network
>transparency is important to me, and DSSI is f'ing wonderful, and  400
>thousand times better than VST for what I want to do.
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>"ALL THIS IS LIES" because your opinion's different?  Right.
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Nop.   just meant that these are not the reasons why we dont have
VST-Like plugins, just the philosophical views of some programmers.

>>You can believe them or not, but it's PROVEN that none of these are 
>>needed to make music.
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>It's PROVEN that computers aren't needed to make music too.
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>Your point?
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That simply means that in any other OS/Plugin systems, you dont really 
need any of these things.