On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 19:48 -0400, David Robillard wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 21:27 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > On 13 Aug 2009, at 20:01, David Robillard wrote: > > >> I'm assuming the only ports to be replicated are those which have > > >> say a > > >> multiPort property. I don't see why replication would not be the same > > >> in a plugin instance, across all ports with that property. > > > > > > Because larger plugins can have several completely different signal > > > paths. Synthesis and effects, or several channels on a mixer, or... > > > > That, IMHO, is a different problem space. [...] > > Several channels on a mixer should be doable with the 1/N channels > > restriction. > > A mixer usually has several 'strips', each of which may have different > counts. Like the ardour mixer, for example. This is a simple, > realistic, and useful case where simply having a single global value > doesn't cut it. The same goes for virtually anything with several > signal paths.
Also, as far as I can tell there is only one existing audio plugin spec that can do anything like this: AU. Tellingly, it's done on a per "bus" (aka group) basis there as well. -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
