8 Jan
2003
8 Jan
'03
7 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:37:51 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
Why is it a pain? I think it is clean. I've never cared for the idea of
Virtual Voices. Either a voice is on, or it is not. The plugin and the
host need to agree on that.
I dont think the host doesn't has to care. Only the instrument can do
voice assignment and priority, and I think its better if assigning voices
doesn't require a two way conversation.
If hte host assigns the VVIDs then it can refer to that voice instantly,
without having to ask the instrument what ID it assigned to the voice it
just created.
- Steve
Either you need to NEVER re-use a VVID, or you need to
tell the host when an
ended VVID is actually re-usable. Or you need to have voice-ids allocated
by the plugin, and NOT the host, which I like more.
Having the plugins allocate them is a pain, its much easier if the host
aloocates them, and just does so from a sufficiently large pool, if you
have 2^32 host VVIDs per instrument you can just round robin them.