1 Mar
2003
1 Mar
'03
8:28 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:40:18 +0000, Mike Rawes wrote:
Well, hints would never prevent anything (by definition), but the question
is wether its useful enough to clutter the API with. I'd say no.
- Steve
For example
the distinction between the control output of an envelope
follower and the gain reduction output of a compressor, the follower
is inteded to drive eg. a filters cutoff, wheres the gain reduction is
just inteded to be viewed by the user as a clue as to what is going
on.
Ah, I get it now. I'm not sure about it either - a user might want to
connect the gain reduction to another plugin's input for whatever
reason, or conversely, connect a 'data' port to a viewer - e.g. an audio
out to an FFT scope. If the hint doesn't prevent this, I have no
argument against having it.