[gmpi] Re: Topic 1: Audience for and users of plugins
- From: <mo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:45:56 +0100
This is much much too broad a target, which will lead to an over-complicated
platform, which is not really powerfull (because there, for instance, will be
things you cannot generalize on DSP-chip platforms). It would be much better to
make the target area smaller, and instead create a powerfull standard.
Rgds,
Michael Olsen
mo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I think we may be close to some closure on this first topic. Here is what
> seems to be what we can agree on:
>
>
> 1. What kinds of host applications does GMPI target?
>
> - Digital audio editors (DAWs), including audio editing in a video context
> - MIDI/audio sequencers
> - Mastering systems
> - Personal music managers, aka "media players"
>
>
> 2. What are the target "form factors" for GMPI host applications?
>
> - Software running on conventional desktop OS
> - Software running on a handheld OS
> - Embedded in a standalone system
> - Embedded within portable "music gear"
>
>
> (Note: This is not to imply that GMPI isn't usable in other contexts, such
> as game consoles or cell phones. It simply means that the specification is
> primarily targeting the listed applications and platforms.)
>
>
> 3. What are the target "form factors" for GMPI plugins?
>
> - On the same platform as the application
> - On dedicated (DSP) hardware with a software interface to the host
>
>
> 4. Who are our target developers?
>
> Anyone who develops software to process or synthesize audio or music. This
> includes commercial developers, academic computer music researchers, and
> indepdendent shareware or freeware developers.
>
>
> 5. What kinds of plugins do people use today, and what will they want to use
> in the future?
>
> Audio-to-Audio:
> - Effects that replace traditional outboard gear in a studio), such as
> delays, reverbs, chorus, flanger, compressor, eq, pitch shifter, etc.
>
> Music-to-Audio processors, such MIDI synthesizers or other "monolithic"
> synthesizers.
> - Music->Music processors, such as quantizers, transposers, style
> generators.
> - Audio->Music processors, such as pitch detectors.
> - Networks of the above 4 elements, creating modular synthesizers and
> processors.
>
>
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