3 Feb
2003
3 Feb
'03
11:33 a.m.
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Steve Harris wrote:
Mix is very useful for hosts that are running a lot of plugins. Take for
example a modular soft synth. You can save a lot of memory by having
plugins mix into buffers rather than allocating an output buffer for each
plugin. It's not really that much effort to write a mix function as well
as a replace function when you compare it to the actual plugin development
time. I would be very sorry to see it go, as it would mean people would be
able to get less out of their hardware.
Ian
* No mix output mode; only replace. More
overhead...
But how many hosts use mix? As a plugin author, having to implement both
is a pain. I use code generation to make both functions.