[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI (What does it mean to be a plugin)

  • From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:06:50 -0700

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:02:11AM -0700, Chris Grigg wrote:
> Yeah, fine, but I'm having trouble parsing you w/r/t what you're 
> saying about Mike's objection, you started out with 'primary 
> tenet...awkward to get multiple... responses...," but then you 

That was paraphrasing Mike, who found it very awkward to handle.

> switched to timing -- is that secondary, then?  Or is it that it's 

Timing is another issue, which also appears when we divorce UI from DSP.

> not the necessity of plugs making and hosts handling the 
> setParameterAutomated() calls Mike objects to -- since there would be 
> similar calls in different places with Actors -- it's just that the 
> particular design of VST's setParameterAutomated() system sucks?

setParameterAutomated() is non-causal, was what I THINK he was bitching
about.  Setting param P1 in an event would result in 1, 2, 3, 5, 100 calls
to setParameterAutomated().

Mike, am I catching your intent?

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