[gmpi] Re: Reqs 3.8
- From: "Michael Gogins" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:03:03 -0500
I am in total agreement with Chris Gregg here. I think we should either drop
int, or simplify the profile idea as much as possible while still making
GMPI attractive to int platform developers.
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Michael Gogins
gogins at pipeline period com
Irreducible Productions
CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Grigg" <gmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Reqs 3.8
> Let me chime in for just a second on this. (BTW, I give the
> following line of reasoning no more than about a 35% chance of
> convincing the group.) I fully understand the no-integer/fixed-point
> POV. But:
>
> - I think the case that there are interesting places where integer &
> fixed-point audio is used has been well made, so will just repeat
> that my sw company, Beatnik, works only on these platforms yet does a
> very nice business. No disrespect to DAW and MI people intended when
> I say: mobile platforms mean big, big business, and even more so in
> the future, so ignore this market at your own risk going forward.
>
> - I think there has to be a rule that profiles can only be considered
> OK if they don't involve any actual runtime performance hit (I mean
> in process()) for any given plug, I mean zero. On the other hand,
> profiles will of course make plug authoring (and architecture & API
> design) at least a little more complex and time consuming, maybe a
> lot if not well designed. So, can I suggest that the important
> question for this group at this point might be: Is that complexity
> and time expense worth the benefits, for enough of the group members
> (however we define 'worth' and 'enough')?
>
> To help reckon the good/bad of that:
>
> - If the group doesn't want to support integer & fixed-point
> platforms now, in GMPI 1.0, then I wouldn't count to heavily on
> creating a derivative format just for integer platforms later. You
> have no idea how hard it is to get a major standards effort together,
> it'll probably never happen even if GMPI becomes very successful for
> music production. So I would suggest: Do, or do not, but decide now.
>
> - Forked specs bad, harmonized specs good. So the proposed 'integer
> derivative' of GMPI is likely to be fragile and susceptible to just
> major, major sync issues with 'real GMPI', compromising its
> long-range chances for reliability and therefore success.
>
> - If profiles are made a part of GMPI 1.0, then there probably won't
> be a need for a GMPI 2.0 as soon.
>
> - If profiles are made a part of GMPI 1.0, then defining the actual
> profiles for the integer & fixed-point platforms can come any time
> later, we don't have to do that part now.
>
> - New markets to sell into
>
> - C'mon, running your plugs on Playstation 2 & Xbox & N-Gages, how
> cool is that?
>
> -- Chris G.
>
>
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