[gmpi] Re: GMPI req's draft 1 for review.

  • From: "Koen Tanghe" <koen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:54:14 +0100

On Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:12 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Tim Hockin <xxxthockin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Req 64: "Plugins must be able to change their latency, when allowed by
>> the host"
>> I guess it is really needed to not allow the plugin to change its latency
>> whenever it wants, right? I can live with it, but there are cases where I
>> would really like it to be different. I currently have a VST plugin that
>> detects peak hights over the last x ms, and the "peak scan time" is a
>> parameter the user can set. This parameter influences the latency of the
>> plugin, and in VST, I can change that latency when the parameter is
>> changed (using setInitialDelay and then calling ioChanged). I can
>> understand though that this is must be a rather heavy burden on the host
>> side...
>
> How many hosts get your plugin right? :)

Yeah... Good question (and I'm not even 100% sure if the way I dod it is
"correct")
Of course, the reason why it is so, is that it's nowhere specified in the
spec how a host should handle it (or not at all). Let's make sure we do
better in the GMPI specs ;-)

>> Hope this helps,
>
> Nice work.  Thanks.  Changes made.

My pleasure!

Koen


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