On Friday 13 December 2002 15.51, Sami P Perttu wrote:
[...]
  Re: pull model, an alternative to supporting pull in
XAP is to just
 say that such plugins should act as hosts. 
That's not much better than not having a plugin API at all. To
support direct-from-disk sampling, the host would have to be a
*sampler*. Why have an *instrument* plugin API, then? It doesn't make
much sense to me to run synths inside a sampler... :-)
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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