14 Aug
2003
14 Aug
'03
4:15 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:24:50AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
It's like designing a new windowing system. You MIGHT do better, but lots
of really smart people have done worse. I'd actively beg that anyone who
has a lot of thoughts on this PLEASE catch up on GMPI and join in the fray.
The XAP ideas have actually been pretty well received so far, and the LAD
community is doing a lot to stop the Mac and Windows people from screwing
this up yet again (Paul, Steve - my thanks!).
and other controllers using (yuck) MIDI for now.
LADSPA is interesting but
I do not see where it handles some of the issues of polyphonic voicing
and assignment control.
it doesn't. it was never meant to. attempts to create an API that did
do this led to discussions here (on LAD) about "XAP", but this has
just about all moved to the GMPI mailing list, where us LAD'ers get to
hang out and talk shop with the guys at Cakewalk, Adobe, FXpansion,
and several other companies who work on plugins and DAWs. devising
your own new API at this time is a bit like, err, err, i don't know
what its like but its like something. not missing the point. i welcome any and all
developers to LAD and to
LADSPA. but those who don't know and understand history are condemned
to repeat it, and the linux world is full of repeated false starts
while all the time promising projects cry out for more assistance to
flesh them out.
I too started my own plugin API to replace LADSPA for multichannel IO and
instruments etc. It's a BIG problem to do really right. I think XAp had
some REALLY clever ideas come out of it. GMPI is sanctioned by the MMA - if
ANYTHING has a chance at succeeding cross-platform, that is it. Yes, it is
a SLOW process. Yes, you'll have to make concessions to Windows developers.
But in the end, you might just have a real winner of an API.
Tim