14 Aug
2009
14 Aug
'09
2:09 p.m.
On 14 Aug 2009, at 15:56, David Robillard wrote:
Because of the sends. Unless you're planning to have N * M way
controls as well?
Because of the pan control.
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 10:13 +0100, Steve Harris
wrote:
Well, it was supposed to be a stereo mixer. So the output will have a
stereo role, making it an n-ary out is just not that simple, you'd
need to do something truly odd with the pan control.
On 14 Aug 2009, at 00:48, David Robillard wrote:
I don't see a) how having multiple channel counts makes any
difference
b) how the hell the host would deal with it.
Lets see, in a typical mixer setup, we have
Audio:
in X N
out X N
master out X 2
Hm, 2? Why 2? 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. bus out X 8
Hm, 8? Why 8? Control:
master gain X 1
channel gain X N
low shelf X N
high shelf X N
trim X N
pan X N
bus sends 8 X N
inputs 2 * N
outputs 2 * N
Why 2? Why do they all have to be 2? Perhaps a simpler example: an n->m panner. Are you
really going to
argue that an n->m panner is not a useful plugin!?
That's a more compelling example, but it can be done with M * N-way
panners and a mixer.
- Steve