[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Common event coding

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:23:43 -0700, Chris Grigg wrote:
> Conversions as you describe would certainly be available, but I don't 
> think it .is. better to re-create the MIDI bytes every time you need 
> it, when you could just include it.  You're talking about taking a 
> source, converting it, throwing away the original, and then getting 
> it back again at every plug, for no actual purpose.  For some classes 
> of plug, that some of us here of think will be very common for the 
> forseeable future, and for MIDI routing purposes, performing 
> MIDI->GMPI->MIDI conversions at every plug is only inefficiency, pure 
> cruft.  Stapling the source message is free to those who don't want 
> to use it, so why disallow it?

Not neccesarily, in the exact conversion case the host can just hold onto
it after it generates the GMPI equivalent, and then return it if the
plugin asks for it. It saves sending it to the 99% of plugins that dont
care.

- Steve 

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