[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Common event coding
- From: "Jack O'Quin" <joq@xxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 24 Jun 2004 02:10:04 -0500
Chris Grigg <gmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Conversions as you describe would certainly be available, but I don't
> think it .is. better to re-create the MIDI bytes every time you need
> it, when you could just include it. You're talking about taking a
> source, converting it, throwing away the original, and then getting it
> back again at every plug, for no actual purpose. For some classes of
> plug, that some of us here of think will be very common for the
> forseeable future, and for MIDI routing purposes, performing
> MIDI->GMPI->MIDI conversions at every plug is only inefficiency, pure
> cruft. Stapling the source message is free to those who don't want to
> use it, so why disallow it?
Because that only works only if the message originally *came* from
MIDI. We want MIDI-oriented plugins to also work with data coming
from other sources (GUI, OSC, whatever), right?
> We don't [need] powerful for this, we just need lack of interference.
The power I described was for *reducing* interference.
Was that unclear in my message?
--
joq
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