11 Feb
2003
11 Feb
'03
4:02 p.m.
Some sort of (seperate, technical) statement from the
l-a-d community
about what features we'd like is probably a good idea too. We have more
experiences in some areas than the closed plugin systems, eg. plugins as
modular synth modules, natural ranges*, seperating UIs from DSP code** and
metadata.
Yes - rather than flood with duplicate requests.
My immediate thoughts:
* Implementable in C, not C++
* Agnostic about multiple inputs/outputs
* Event driven
* No MIDI legacy, but able to automagically connect MIDI hints
* Named audio ports (Left, Right, etc) for clever connections between plugins
* Native support/hints for control types
- Float/Int
- Boolean
- Enum
- String
* Arbitrary per-voice continuous controls
* Some way to seek into long samples (optional for plugins to support)
* Mono float buffers