On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, David Olofson wrote:
  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... :-) 
But... running synths inside a granular synthesizer makes sense. Besides,
it's not just an instrument API, there's bound to be a white noise plugin
:).
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