>At the current speed , GMPI will be able to provide a new plug-in >architecture arround year 2007 or 2010. At this time the audiohost companies >won't be Steinberg or E-magic anymore, but Tascam, Fairlight, Akai, Yamaha, >Mackie, etc... or redhat, suse, ibm, dell and the rest. by 2010, * DSP processors will have been almost completely eclipsed by general purpose CPUs. * Operating systems will have become commoditized (future yamaha systems are already being based on linux) * desktop systems will do what you'd need a studio full of current high-end DSP gear to do. * quality studios will be defined more by their control surfaces than their signal processing hardware. i think you misread the speed of this process. there are large quantities of usable code that will appear rapidly once the goals and then specification is agreed to. there are multiple working comparative platforms in existence - this is not rocket science. the hard part is defining what GMPI should do. doing it is easy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe