[LAD] Plugin buffer size restrictions

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:00:36AM +0300, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
 
> So far so good, but in practical terms how could a plugin API allow
> all use cases without requiring the plugin writer to do twice the
> work? The only solution I can think of is "getting future values" in
> case a host can provide them, but maybe there is a better way?

If you really want 'sample accurate' control for bandlimited 
controls then the host must provide future values. Which is not
more difficult than providing latency compensation for audio
signals, at least not if the control rate is fixed. It's not
at all an issue for the plugin code and you certainly don't
need two versions of it.


Ciao,


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