7 Dec
2002
7 Dec
'02
8:31 p.m.
On Sunday 08 December 2002 01.03, Steve Harris wrote:
Right. I still think instruments are a *subset* of plugins, but I
guess we'll have to think of a new word if we want something that
people in general actually interpret that way.
Units? Which would actually be more correct, since that would include
JACK clients (running as separate processes) and the like, which are
*not* plugins, IMHO.
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On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:26:12 +0100, David Olofson
wrote:
OK, but thier still instruments :)
Yes - but there's only one instance for N channels. :-)
Yes, more
or less. I was using instrument as in VSTi
instrument, ie an instance of a thing instantiated from a .so
file. The word plugin is far too overloaded.
Ok. (But VSTis can be multichanne/multipart, AFAIK.) The word
"plugin", AFAIK, simply refers to something you plug
into an application - it's not limited to DSP plugins or
generators, and doesn't even have to have anything to do with
audio. It's just the music industry that has hijacked the word.
:-)
Sure, sure. But it has been hijacked, theres not much point trying
to un-hijack it.