[gmpi] Re: Decision time: 8.2

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:19:05 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:11:39PM -0700, Marc Poirier wrote:
> > Shall we start where we left off with this during the early more free-form
> > part of the 8 discussions?  There was a lot of thorough discussion about
> > this topic during that time.  I still like the idea of saving all
> > parameter values plus optional blobs, maybe only 1 blob or maybe the
> > possibility of more, and maybe the blobs themselves are parameters.
> 
> So, as I kinda described in 8.1 (wrongly, final Summary should be cleared
> up):
> 
> I agree blobs are necessary.  I don't like blob parameters, because I feel
> that all parameters should be automatable.  This is where I invented stata.
> Stata are the save/restore hooks.  The values of all the stata are the
> plugin's state.

I think blobs are automatable, but the host just cant render them, I'm
thinking of them like sysex packets.

I think there are just some things that need to be communicated between
(say) UI and DSP code that shouldn't be expressed as a bunch of number or
string parameters.

- Steve 

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