[gmpi] Re: GUI and DSP separation

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:49:43 +0000

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:28:47 +0100, Marc Poirier wrote:
> > Can you explain why its done this way? It also seems useful for the UI to
> > express what DSP components it can control. For example, in LADSPA we have
> > UIs that can control any (or a subset of) plugins. Possibly both are
> > desirable.
> 
> Yeah, I can see where you're coming from, sounds like that could be 
> useful.  I guess with AU, there's a sort of exception which is that there 
> is a generic GUI component (comes with the OS) which you can assume will 
> work with any DSP component.  But that's as far as it goes, so far, in 
> that direction...

In the linux world we have the situation where the UIs are mostly
developed seperatly form the plugins, and there are maybe a dozen or so
different, aproximatly generic LADSPA UIs.

- Steve 

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