[gmpi] Re: Out-of-Band: suggestion for rethink

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From: "Paul Davis" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Out-of-Band: suggestion for rethink


> its mid-september. the mailing list started in mid-february. that's 7
> months so far. we've actually done a lot, but progress has slowed down
> a lot as time drags on.

i don't think so... but...

> i suspect that if people were motivated, we could be done with a
> review in 4 weeks. i suspect Marc P. would be happy to do the
> CoreAudio review, i'd happily do the VST one although i'm not the most
> obviously qualified person to tackle it, i'm sure Steve H. would be
> willing to tackle the LADSPA one (the simplest of the lot). that means
> we would need reviewers for:
>
>       * TDM
>       * RTAS
>       * MAS
>       * DirectX
>       * Rewire? DirectConnect?

Let's be motivated so...

> the reviews could be posted anonymously if people are worried about
> corporate relations and all that. or you can forward them all to me
> and i'll rewrite them in my own style. i have no bridges to burn :)

:-)

> >> and what's in that base?
> >
> >This is simple to find if you are focused on a minimal goal : host (2
tracks
> >, 1 master) wants to insert a plug-in (Delay / Gain) . If you do that ,
you
> >get your base. I (and most of the people there) can program that badly in
2
>
> the point is: loads of people have already done this!! we've got lots
> of examples of what happens when people sit down and do this. the
> problem: nobody thinks that any of the results are so much better than
> any of the others that its worth supporting as a GMPI-like standard
> (well, this is one of the problems). this is despite significant
> issues with various aspects of each API, and the general proprietary
> nature of just about all of them. why would the result of a group of
> people from this list working on the exact same problem be any
> different? i think that the last thing we want is another plugin API
> written without a clear model of what the goals are.

easy argument, why trying to do something better so !? if people already did
it and failed !?

Well, i don't want to arg a week with my way of thinking.
So... I follow you.
Vincent Burel



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