On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:44:39 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > I'm still not sure I understand the terminology here... Considering > some recent posts, I assume that the following applies:
Yes, more or less. I was using instrument as in VSTi instrument, ie an instance of a thing instantiated from a .so file. The word plugin is far too overloaded. The intention is that these things would (on the whole) be sound generators, right? To me plugin implies inline processing. > As to the "gets a voice ID" thing, no, I think this is a bad idea. > The host should *pick* a voice ID from a previously allocated pool of > Virtual Voice IDs. That way, you eliminate the host-plugin or > plugin-plugin (this is where it starts getting interesting) > roundtrip, which means you can, amond other things: Good idea. - Steve
