3 Feb
2003
3 Feb
'03
11:52 a.m.
On Monday 03 February 2003 3:26 pm, ian wrote:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Steve Harris wrote:
Mix is very useful for hosts that are running a lot of plugins. Take for
example a modular soft synth. You can save a lot of memory by having
plugins mix into buffers rather than allocating an output buffer for each
plugin. It's not really that much effort to write a mix function as well
as a replace function when you compare it to the actual plugin development
time. I would be very sorry to see it go, as it would mean people would be
able to get less out of their hardware.
Ian
Indeed, and using code generation to get both isn't too hard. If you're
using C++ you can do it with templates (see the latest version of cmt for
some LADSPA plugins I wrote that do this in an admittedly hacky way)
* No mix
output mode; only replace. More overhead...
But how many hosts use mix? As a plugin author, having to implement both
is a pain. I use code generation to make both functions.