7 Dec
2002
7 Dec
'02
4:31 p.m.
On Saturday 07 December 2002 17.33, Steve Harris wrote:
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:44:39 +0100, David Olofson
wrote:
Ok. (But VSTis can be multichanne/multipart, AFAIK.)
I'm still not sure I understand the
terminology here...
Considering some recent posts, I assume that the following
applies:
Yes, more or less. I was using instrument as in VSTi instrument, ie
an instance of a thing instantiated from a .so file. The word
plugin is far too overloaded. The intention is that these things would (on the
whole) be sound
generators, right? To me plugin implies inline processing.
The word "plugin", AFAIK, simply refers to something you plug into an
application - it's not limited to DSP plugins or generators, and
doesn't even have to have anything to do with audio. It's just the
music industry that has hijacked the word. :-)
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