Paul Davis wrote:
I see parameters as a special class of inputs to a plugin. I realize that this is really a semantic distinction, but I think that this distinction will make it easier to understand the system, because it is familiar. So I see a side-chain input to a compressor as a port, while the compression ratio is a parameter. This doesn't mean that their operation is necessarily different. However, their presentation in the host is definitely different, at least for DAW-type hosts. Parameters are linked to automation. Ports are not.
i think this is wrong. i think its more correct to say that scalar values are linked to automation, vector values are not. thus, the audio output from a compressor is not automatable (duh!), and neither is the audio side chain input, but the compression ratio is. the difference in the last two is not whether they are ports or parameters or whatever, but whether they are scalar or vector values.
-- Mike Berry Adobe Systems
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