there was an excellent suggestion made during our discussions about the idea of allowings plugins+hosts to have an out-of-band conversation, for example to establish if the plugin can run in the host (think of "builtin" plugins for a given DAW). i can see no mention of the idea in the document. was it nixxed, or has it just vanished? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe