On Wednesday 05 February 2003 17.40, Paul Winkler wrote: [...] > Quick (?) LCP question: > how closely is it tied to LADSPA? > Does it only support LADSPA float ports? (I guess it would.) [...]
This is pretty much exactly what I'm thinking about right now... First thought: Extend it to support XAP. Second thought: Turn it into a more generic "remote control" API/protocol. Then I started thinking about Audiality exporting it's mixer controls to this, as a two-way alternative to the NRPN based protocol I'm currently running over the ALSA sequencer or other MIDI API. > The fallback plan is to use MIDI over the ALSA sequencer, but > I really don't want to have to do that! I considered that as well, but there are two major issues. MIDI is basically a one-way protocol. (There *are* standardized exceptions to this rule, but AFAIK, none of them involve registering controls and stuff like that.) MIDI has only 7 and 14 bit controls, no control registering protocol etc, so one would have to design a new protocol on top of MIDI, based CCs, NRPNs, SysEx or whatever - and at that point, one starts to wonder what the point is in using MIDI as the transport layer in the first place. //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- The Return of Audiality! --------------------------------. | Free/Open Source Audio Engine for use in Games or Studio. | | RT and off-line synth. Scripting. Sample accurate timing. | `---------------------------> http://olofson.net/audiality -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---
