Do plugins have any more sense of time than your average herd of cows? In goes sunlight and green grass, and out comes a healthy amount of milk and fresh manure ..
The only kinds of "plugins" that has a sense of time in our world are those who are recording either audio or midi, and these are those we would normally prefer to define as our toplevel hosts. /j On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 15:46 -0500, David Robillard wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 14:55 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Darren Landrum > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > If one were to build a "kernel" to a digital audio workstation > > that was > > itself a bare-bones LV2 host, could things like audio tracks, > > midi > > tracks, and mixer channels and the like be built as LV2 > > plug-ins? > > > > if you want to understand why this is hard (not impossible, just > > hard), go read the ardour source code and find all the places where > > *unexpected* inter-object dependencies appear. then figure out how to > > remove them. if you can do that, you'll be able to make a modular > > system work. if not, you'll at least understand why nobody has else > > has been able to do it so far. > > Exactly as hard as Jack doing transport... > > Anyway, just because the signal flow aspect of things is patching > doesn't mean transport has to be. There's no fundamental reason this is > any harder than it is to solve in Ardour. Objects are objects at the > end of the day. You could even do it by controlling the transport over > wires if you wanted to (messages are messages at the end of the day) but > it would be a huge mess you would want to hide from the user anyway, so > not a lot of point. > > There's no technological reason this is infeasible or particularly > difficult, it's just a lot of work. > > -dr > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
