[gmpi] Re: R: Re: Topic 1: Audience for and users of plugins
- From: "Amar CHAUDHARY" <amar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:48:14 -0800
It's hard to really tell which way the conversation is heading at this
point, towards a strong audio-vs-"music" dichotomy or not.
I would like to voice strong support for NOT differentiating "kinds" of
plug-ins, especially if the terms are "audio" and "music", which rightly
overlap one another.
Rather plug-ins should simply be typed data in/typed data out, I believe
this has already been suggested.
Consider a pitch-detector: audio in, frequency (floating-point #) out.
This also doesn't preclude audio in, video out, btw.
-Amar
Creative ATC OpenSoundWorld
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Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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02/26/2003 10:40 AM
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>Do not make sense to me doing differentiation between types of plugins..
Actually, that's what I am trying to avoid.
Ron's list focused on the nature of the transformation (Audio->Audio,
Music->Audio, etc.) and I think we agree that this is the wrong
"dimension" to think about this in.
I prefer to focus on the whether a plugin is considered to be a source
of a certain kind of data and whether it can also be a sink of a
certain kind of data. We are only considering audio + music data (no
video, for example), so when describing a given plugin, we have a 2 x
2 matrix:
INPUTS
Audio Music
O
U Audio
T
P
U
T Music
S
There are many combinations possible, and I think GMPI should support
all of them except (probably) a plugin with no input and no output :)
Common forms would be:
MIDI-driven synthesis: Input: { Music } Output: { Audio }
Audio processing: Input: { Audio, Music } Output: { Audio }
MIDI processing: Input: { Music } Output: { Music }
etc.
The point is that we are trying to define a goal for GMPI, and the
goal needs to be clearly stated. I believe the goal is not to exclude
any potential plugin that can be described by this 2x2 matrix.
--p
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