On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:31:41PM +0100, David Olofson wrote: > So, what do you do if you don't *have* the source signal you want in > audio format? Hack the plugin? (Yeah, ordinary users will love > that...)
Well ordinary users dont want audio rate controle either... until sfotware companies tell them they do ;) > > Well, when people start writing audio rate DSP software that isn't > > full of hacky optimisation and aproximations the audio rate stuff > > will be much slower than the control rate stuff ;) > > So, *that's* how desktop applications got as insanely slow as they > are these days... :-) Sure. And so good. > "If I don't need to optimize this, I don't need to optimize that..." Hmmm. well there are optimisations that jsut make things faster and there are optimisations that make things faster and worse. Events are sometimes the later. > Well, there's a practical problem with off-line stuff as well; > tweaking until you get the perfect sound takes ages... *hehe* Oh, yeah. RT editing and massive polyphony makes this stuff so much more fun. Which is why I'm ecouraging events here :) > Until we can do away with blocks, we probably can't do away with > events either. Those sort of belong in the same order of magnitude of > work vs overhead. Yup. Agreed. Though there are a few sitaution where blocks+cont. control is worthwhile. Just not in generic instrument APIs. Obviously I'd rather have blockless. - Steve
