[gmpi] Re: My plugin system
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:08:57 -0700
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:17:05PM +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> Then we also need a separate flow graph standard, so that my reverb
> written as a set of both the GMPI plugins and the flow graph
> descriptions would work in all such flow engine plugins.
"Need" is pretty heavy handed. Your example is rather fringe, honestly. It
immediately strikes me as something you should do as a mini-modular system.
Define a very simple plugin system (you don't need to solve all the problems
that GMPI does) and make them all mini-plugins. Then wrap that all in GMPI.
Very much how Reaktor, Tassman, VazModular etc. do for VST.
> What if my reverb wants to use third party late reverberation unit?
> I should write a simple GMPI host inside my reverb which then either
> runs a monolithic late reverberator or runs a GMPI plugin with a flow
> engine which finally runs a graph of a late reverberator.
? What exactly do you mean by 'flow engine'? The ability to load
sub-graphs should be trivial. If it is not part of the SDK, then a
GMPI-host plugin which loads sub-graphs will be one of my own first
projects. Stop fretting, if that is what pesters you. If it is something
else, then you ned to be clearer.
> It all would be simpler if the flow graph description would be part
> of the GMPI. The problem that then each host should have a flow engine
The actual graph-processing code my be examples in the SDK, but I think that
this is one area where hosts will do their own thing - threaded,
non-threaded, etc. We can and should show a simple example of traversing a
GMPI graph, but don't expect that to be the one-true algorithm.
I feel like I am misunderstanding what you want..
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or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts?
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