--- Ron Kuper <RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
BTW2 "We have always done it like this" is no
argument. "It works fine now so why change it?"
isn't
either.
<<<
Users have an investment in gear that works this
way. Shipping
applications have an investment in architectures
that work this way.
Gear that users allready have doesn't conform to GMPI
now does it? Shipping applications do neither. In
fact, I wouldn't expect anything seriously GMPI before
2007 and then I'm being optimistic. Since GMPI will be
for new gear, you might as well add some new things.
Maybe it would help if you could provide a
real-world usage case where
using events causes a bad user experience?
I am not talking about bad user experiences of today,
I am thinking about improving and adding new user
experiences. The first fish that crawled out of the
see could only crawl but it was quite happy with that.
Still we would never want to go back to crawling again
(at least not me).
Defining controls as generators and treating them that
way allows you to modulate anything from any source
without introducing a new class of plugins (event
generators). Today, this is simply impossible. The
built-in LFO of your favorite sampler only does sines
or won't go high enough? Roll your own or use some
other synth for it. Your synth's ADSR doesn't provide
a chaotic attack? Roll your own. Etc.. If you've ever
played with modular hardware synths then you know that
you can create very exciting sounds through
modulation, especially "high" frequency modulation of
unexpected parameters from unexpected sources.
Furthermore, you could use only the modules you really
need instead of firing up a shitload of plugins that
all can do chorus. You might even gain some processing
power that way.
Turn your entire DAW in a hyper modular synth,
wouldn't that be cool? Use your imagination.
You could do all this by introducing event generator
plugins, but then you limit the upper frequency, which
is too bad. And you'd have a new class of gear, which
has to be treated differently, etc..
But as Tim kindly pointed out, this isn't the place
for discussing a standard that proposes exciting new
things as I was mistakenly thinking, you are
developing a standard for things that allready work.
Say, what if we all put the steering wheel at the left
side of the car?
Bye.
Crudesoft
P.S. When I said "random" I actualy meant "arbitrary",
I looked it up. Sorry about any confusion caused, but
we're not all native english speakers.
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