13 Aug
2009
13 Aug
'09
9:48 p.m.
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 21:27 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
On 13 Aug 2009, at 20:01, David Robillard wrote:
That, IMHO, is a different problem space.
Replicating ports is a different problem space than replication ports?
If we end up with a bunch of different little half-assed extensions for
the same thing, then the extension FUD is right.
If there are real, actual, concrete reasons why doing something is very
complex and probably not useful, that's another story, but I don't think
that's the case here.
I'm
assuming the only ports to be replicated are those which have
say a
multiPort property. I don't see why replication would not be the same
in a plugin instance, across all ports with that property.
Because larger plugins can have several completely different signal
paths. Synthesis and effects, or several channels on a mixer, or... Several channels on a mixer should be doable with the
1/N channels
restriction.
A mixer usually has several 'strips', each of which may have different
counts. Like the ardour mixer, for example. This is a simple,
realistic, and useful case where simply having a single global value
doesn't cut it. The same goes for virtually anything with several
signal paths.
-dr