On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 10:13 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On 14 Aug 2009, at 00:48, David Robillard wrote: > >> 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. > > I don't see a) how having multiple channel counts makes any difference > b) how the hell the host would deal with it. > > Lets see, in a typical mixer setup, we have > > Audio: > in X N > out X N > master out X 2
Hm, 2? Why 2? > bus out X 8 Hm, 8? Why 8? > Control: > master gain X 1 > channel gain X N > low shelf X N > high shelf X N > trim X N > pan X N > bus sends 8 X N inputs 2 * N outputs 2 * N Why 2? Why do they all have to be 2? Perhaps a simpler example: an n->m panner. Are you really going to argue that an n->m panner is not a useful plugin!? -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
