[linux-audio-dev] Re: processing plugin standard wrapper

[Camilo Polyméris]

Jeff McClintock wrote:
> >>>I actually don't know how many plugins are LTI, but, for example, a
> >>>lot of delays, reverbs, choruses, eq. filters, compressors, modulators
> >>>and "sound mixers" should be, and that's quite enough after all.
>
> Yeah, It's a good optimization.  The SynthEdit plugin API supports 
> inputs being flagged as 'linear', if several such plugins are used in 
> parallel they are automatically collapsed into a single instance which 
> is fed the summed signals of the original plugins.  Plugin are 
> collapsed  only when their control inputs are the same.
>
> BEFORE optimation:
>
> [plugin]-->[delay1]------>
> [plugin]-->[delay2]-/
>
> AFTER:
>
> [plugin]--->[delay1]--->
> [plugin]-/
>
>  e.g. two parallel 100ms delays are combined.  Two different length 
> delays aren't.
>
>   This is most useful in synth patches where each voice is an 
> identical parallel sub-patch.
>
>
> Jeff McClintock
>
How often are more than one plugin with the same control inputs used in 
paralel? I was rather thinking of colapsing (or swapping) plugins in 
series. They'd have to be linear and time invariant, of course.
Or maybe plugins could 'know' how to colapse themselves, sort of like 
overriding Plugin::operator+(const Plugin&), to use a C++ metaphor.

Camilo