On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:00 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:46:58PM +0100, james morris wrote: > > > Say you have a LP filter plugin processing a stereo stream. It has one > > port for the cutoff and two ports for input, therefor two for output. > > What happens if you decide you want independent control over the cutoff > > for the two channels? > > That is the essential difference between a plugin being used in > a multichannel stream and one being used for polyphonic synthesis, > where the cutoff frequency could be a per-voice envelope. > Provided the plugin can do both, it is the *host* that has to make > clear what's required.
++ Though in the latter case, it's probably best to just instantiate the thing twice as hosts currently do (and will likely need to implement regardless). -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
