>>> Sorry if I sound harsh, but this issue is very important to me with respect to plugin API design, and since I heard only support and no resistance to my prior suggestions and concerns, I'm really baffled as to why they've been ignored. <<< This wasn't intentional, and I apologize for not rewriting that section more decisively. How does this sound? 5. What kinds of plugins do people use today, and what will they want to use in the future? Plugins that produce and/or consume musical data and/or control data and/or digital audio data. In the most general case a plugin can have arbitrary numbers of incoming and outgoing music/audio/control data connections, including no connections at all. Some examples of contemporary plugin input/output connections include, but are not restricted to: Audio-in, Audio-out : Effects that replace traditional outboard gear in a studio), such as delays, reverbs, chorus, flanger, compressor, eq, pitch shifter, etc. Music-in, Audio-out: MIDI synthesizers. Music-in, Music-out: Quantizers, transposers, style generators. Audio-in, Music-out: Pitch to audio converers, pitch detectors, envelope followers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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