[gmpi] Re: 3.9 (draft) use cases and stuff

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:52:32PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
> Just to clarify, the plugin must be able to generate tempo and meter
> changes for the host too? ("realtime" events, that is, not "offline").

What does the host use tempo for?  To control plugins.  The host itself
doesn't care about tempo, really.

> I have only one argument in favor of having this somehow in the API.
> There's been a little bit of discussion about allowing tempo/meter
> lookahead for plugs. This of course would only be relevant when the
> host/tempo-controller were playing from a static tempo map. It doesn't
> sound like this capability will be added, and I agree that it probably
> isn't worth the extra complications. But *if* this capaiblity is added to
> GMPI, I suggest that a corresponding API call be included to push static
> tempo map events back to the host/tempo-controller. This could use the

I'll agree to that.  IFF we decide to have a static-map
mode/option/model/whatever, then passing map data around is porbably
useful.

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