[gmpi] Re: Topic 7: Audio packaging

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:09:52 -0700, Chris Grigg wrote:
> Needing a zero-buffer strikes me as a choice that only the plug 
> author can correctly make, and conversely requiring all GMPI hosts to 
> always furnish zero-buffers to all non-user-connected inputs seems 
> like a possible source of system-wide inefficiency.  Consider a 

Er, there only needs to be one buffer of 0.0's per host, its never written
to.

> utility mixer that scales N active inputs to avoid clipping; in that 
> case, knowing that an input is semantically unconnected makes a 
> difference in how the plug processes every other input, and 
> unconnected inputs are not processed at all.  So automatically 

Yes, thats why theres a function call (or whatever) to detect if a port is
unconnected.

- Steve

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