14 Aug
2009
14 Aug
'09
12:29 a.m.
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 19:48 -0400, David Robillard wrote:
Also, as far as I can tell there is only one existing audio plugin spec
that can do anything like this: AU. Tellingly, it's done on a per
"bus" (aka group) basis there as well.
-dr
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 21:27 +0100, Steve Harris
wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2009, at 20:01, David Robillard wrote:
> >> I'm assuming the only ports to be replicated are those which have
> >> say a
> >> multiPort property. I don't see why replication would not be the same
> >> in a plugin instance, across all ports with that property.
> >
> > Because larger plugins can have several completely different signal
> > paths. Synthesis and effects, or several channels on a mixer, or...
>
> That, IMHO, is a different problem space.
[...]
Several
channels on a mixer should be doable with the 1/N channels
restriction.
A mixer usually has several 'strips', each of which may have different
counts. Like the ardour mixer, for example. This is a simple,
realistic, and useful case where simply having a single global value
doesn't cut it. The same goes for virtually anything with several
signal paths.