11 Dec
2002
11 Dec
'02
5:33 p.m.
David Olofson wrote:
which is an added level of complexity, barring a lot of ways
to head for plugins.
a plugin that is audio only does not need to care, it simply
asks the host for time conversion when needed. complexity is
a non-issue here. and talking about complexity: two discrete
systems surely are more complex to implement than one alone.
i'm becoming tired of discussing this matter. fine by me if
you can live with a plugin system that goes only half the way
towards usable event handling.
tim
so eventually,
you'll need a different event system for
plugins that care about musical time.
No. You'll need a different event system for plugins that want to
look at future events. i'm
convinced it's better to design one system that works
for event-only as well as audio-only plugins and allows for
the mixed case, too. everything else is an arbitrary
limitation of the system's capabilities.
So, you want our real time synth + effect API to also be a full-blown
off-line music editing plugin API? Do you realize the complexity
consequences of such a design choice?