9 Dec
2002
9 Dec
'02
2:01 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:31:41PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
Sure. And so good.
So, what do you do if you don't *have* the source
signal you want in
audio format? Hack the plugin? (Yeah, ordinary users will love
that...)
Well ordinary users dont want audio rate controle either... until sfotware
companies tell them they do ;)
Well, when
people start writing audio rate DSP software that isn't
full of hacky optimisation and aproximations the audio rate stuff
will be much slower than the control rate stuff ;)
So, *that's* how desktop applications got as insanely slow as they
are these days... :-) "If I don't need to optimize this, I
don't need to optimize that..."
Hmmm. well there are optimisations that jsut make things faster and there
are optimisations that make things faster and worse. Events are sometimes
the later.
Well, there's a practical problem with off-line
stuff as well;
tweaking until you get the perfect sound takes ages... *hehe*
Oh, yeah. RT editing and massive polyphony makes this stuff so much more
fun. Which is why I'm ecouraging events here :)
Until we can do away with blocks, we probably
can't do away with
events either. Those sort of belong in the same order of magnitude of
work vs overhead.
Yup. Agreed. Though there are a few sitaution where blocks+cont. control
is worthwhile. Just not in generic instrument APIs.
Obviously I'd rather have blockless.
- Steve