On 01/31/2013 12:15 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > It would be more useful to me if there were a way of firing up a > collection of DSSI instruments, each with their own configuration > restored (and saved), that I could access using the ALSA sequencer > interface.
When I think about it at some length, I think you and I are both probably just caught up in a more traditional MIDI mindset. You could almost use one instance of Rosegarden as a plugin rack and talk to it with another instance of Rosegarden, but that seems really silly, doesn't it? The reasons why it probably wouldn't work are a lot of the same reasons why it would be challenging to write a synth plugin rack generally. How do you talk to it from outside when it has such a wildly and infinitely variable configuration? Rosegarden's device definitions would need to be updated to be specific to each particular permutation of some particular combination of plugins, for each and every permutation you wanted to use. There would need to be some way in place for Rosegarden (or any other sequencer MIDI emitter) to get in deep inside whatever was going on with that rack on an intimate level. Just doing the plugins inside Rosegarden starts to make vastly more sense when you think about the mechanics of making it all fit together using MIDI as the bridge. I think it's just a mindset thing, but I do sympathize with where you're coming from. I've never really used synth plugins for much of anything other than demonstration purposes myself. I'm not very comfortable working that way, as opposed to the familiar and traditional way. It probably is the way to go though. Holger has a very good point; especially concerning latency. But hey, I just woke up and I'm still three quarters asleep, so I could be babbling. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
