On Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:27 AM [GMT+1=CET], Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you let a plug have a MIDI In control port then all the individual >> controller routing for that plug is handled automatically within the >> plug, with no host load and no host GUI needs to be written by the >> host author nor played with by the user. Lots and lots of popular >> plugs already work this way. > > This is exactly what I hate. I don't want to know what CC# each knob > in SynthX is. I don't want to figure out MIDI learn on each Synth I > buy. I want to right-click->link-to-MIDI and then waggle a knob. On > EVERYTHING. The same way. I want to be able to write plugins that > can be controlled by MIDI without writing a MIDI parser and building > it into each plugin. I fully agree with this. This *is* probably as user-friendly as it can get. Koen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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