Re: [linux-audio-dev] Todays changes to "LADSPA2" strawman

On Apr 29, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Dave Robillard wrote: Dave, you complain about people talking down about modular synths, then yourself discount things that are only useful in non-modular designs? How about a little reciprocity here? run_multiple_synths() _is_ useless to any host (like Om), that wants to process an arbitrary connection graph one node at a time. run_multiple_synths() is very useful when a host can run multiple instances of a plugin at once. It provides easy, lock-free sharing of resources across the instances. It allows FluidSynth-DSSI and hexter to both provide a shared pool of voices used across several instances, with _sample-accurate_ voice stealing. It allows FluidSynth-DSSI to easily bolt onto libfluidsynth, and share soundfont data between multiple instances, without the need for a custom soundfont loader. In contrast, I purposely wrote WhySynth without using run_multiple_synths(), just to see how difficult the resource sharing would be. Nasty mess of mutexes and try_locks().... All of this is not to say that run_multiple_synths() doesn't have some real PITA issues. But that's a discussion better had over on dssi-devel. -Sean