----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:25 AM Subject: [gmpi] Re: Requirements sections 3.4 and 3.5 Ok, i'm agree to communicate these informations to the plug-in - real time or not. - offline or online but that's it ! the plug-in will have to decide itself what to do. > > say also) the Quality Knob (wich can be a number of band, a factor overlap, > > an order, a depth parameter etc...) is requiered only for plug-in who eat > > CPU power , and it's better to let the plug-in take care about that and > > named that with the good word to let the user decide what to do... > > I agree with that EXCEPT that it should be possible to tell plugins "this is > a full quality render - ignore any scale-backs. the problem is that some kind of "quality" knob can be considered as an effect by the user. To use a vocoder or a convolution algorythm in cheap mode can also be interesting in some production to create special effect. why to oblige the High quality mode for finalizing ? again a concept from programmer i'm affraid. VB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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