On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 04:19, Steve Harris wrote: > Its nothing to do with the plugin - thier control (and uadio for that > matter) inputs can just be bound together. Its just a case of how the UI > is handled by the host.
Ack! Don't kill this thred by mentioning UI too. :) > > Agreed 100%. Unfortunately, like you said, LADSPA changes. If plugins > > are to get more versatile and have more and more control/audio ports, > > some mechanism to ignore ports is definately needed. > > Hmm... disagree. Its not output connections that are imortant, its input > connections. Some plugin naturally have a different behaviour when > different inputs are connected, eg. a reverb with only left connected > becahes differently to one with left and right, but where right is silent. I guess I wasn't clear, but this is exactly what I meant. Definately input plugins, for both behaviour reasons like you mentioned, and optimization.. doing calculations on input that isn't even there isn't very clever. > > If I'm just using an oscillator to get a sine wav, it's pretty wasteful > > for the plugin to be calculating exponential _and_ liner FM, PWM (pulse > > width), and bob knows what else. > > When plugins offer multiple outputs like that its generally becuase one > can be calculated very cheaply from the others. If thats not the case then > the author should provice multiple versions IMNSHO. I suppose I see your point, but if a mechanism is going to be there for hinting whether ports are connected or not... why not use it for output plugins too? I don't know about you, but when I'm doing synthesis the gkrellm CPU graph is just a big solid block at 100%... every little bit counts. > > I shouldn't even say "modular synth", because such a program would > > definately be an awesome effects rack. Having a jack rack except being > > able to string things together however you want is something I think > > everyone can appreciate. > > Many people (including me) use modular synths primarily as effects racks. > Please dont encourage jack-rack complexity - one of the things that makes > it wonderful is that its so simple. Heh, I wasn't advocating eliminating jack-rack from the planet. :) 'Twas just a sidenote, an app like this would be really useful as an effects "rack".. like stringing guitar pedals together. > - Steve
